I can't decide who Harper reminds me more of -- Winston Churchill or Alexander the Great. What do you guys think?
His officials explained that Canada plans to increase its Africa funding to $2.1 billion for 2008-09, from $1.05 billion in 2003-04.
But the opposition says they've only arrived at a claim to be on target by re-calculating Canada's 2005 commitment and shaving off $800 million - nearly one-third - from the $2.9 billion the Liberals promised in 2005.
Is this true? Yes or no? I don't know. I hope not.
If we promised 2.9 in '05 and are bragging about actually giving 2.1 then, well, that's nothing to be bragging about.
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