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On Monday, Jan Egeland, U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, criticized the world's "rich countries," saying, in general, that the amount of foreign aid they gave was "stingy."
That could have something to do with the sudden turnaround from the Cdn. government. I thought 4 million was pretty stingy as well, considering the amount of money they habitually toss around on golf courses and ad agencies....
Also interesting to note the US has kicked in 35 million.....and an aircraft carrier.
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I'm not about to defend the Canadian government for much, but look at the beginning of this thread. The first post from fotze has 150
people dead and look how rapidly things changed. By nighttime boxing day they had estimates that were a fraction of what they would be the next day and again the next day and then again today. [/b][/quote]
I believe the count was around 20,000 plus when they announced the first 3 million in aid. I'm assuming your 150 is a typo, as the first count was 4500 or thereabouts.
Symantics, really. All I'm saying is the 3 million, or the increased 4 million was a little stingy at the time. In a situation like this I'm more than willing to kick in whatever it takes financially to help out, whether it be 30 million or 100. My opinion.