Good stuff.
I hope, though, that this isn't the kind of "we scratch your back, you scratch ours" third-world aid. I wonder if the donations from the CGSCI are tied to things like exclusive mineral rights in other regions of nations targetted for aid and things like that.
I mean, I hate being cynical but that's a lot of money. The other proviso, too, is that the money goes to sustainable development and isn't simply throwing money at ethnic poverty -- we Canadians all know how that turns out.
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