WHEN BRIAN Batoney called that Liberal chap a some-
thing bastard he proved once again that he isn’t Jesus. But
he can perform miracles, like feeding the (fcreign)
multitude with the seven loaves and a few little fishes.

Collins
(Commonweaith? [t has no 0 im
wealth and nothing in common. PE See NS

But I digress.) , <a

Before that, he had dropped in- a
to Gabon, a great African
democracy ruled by a dictator
named Omar Bongo. Mr, Bongo
got $23.5 million — probably
because he speaks French.

We scatter money into African
basket states like confetti, but
whether they are any more
basket-like than we are is ;
debatabdie, what with our world- ab te ae :
class nationai deficit and all. “

So here we have ani interesting ON THE OTHER HAND
philosophical and financial con-
undrum: how can one bankrupt
country bankroll] another? Aren’t
there laws about such things?

And it isn't just a matter of

Example: he has written off $31
million in “‘loans’' to Zimbabwe.
And that was in addition to the
$20 million he handed over during
the Commonwealth conference.

pay they should took for other
work. That's what we of ihe un-
washed have to do when a source
dries up.

Gabon and Zimbabwe, which
when it was wicked white-ruled
Rhodesia was able to look after
itself very nicely, thank you.

Every year, we throw about $3
billion down the foreign aid drain.
Three billion bucks we don’t have.

Talk about miracies!

Brian is generous to Comrade
Robert Mugabe and others in the
Dark Continent while Canadian

‘ farmers are patching their pants
and asking for another $600 mil-
lion to go with the $800 million
they've already had.

Tory MPs are muttering about
finding the money by putting the
GST on food.

‘Whether that will be done is
doubtful. Nothing could be more
certain of reducing Brian’s popu-
Jarity rating from 15 to five. But
you never know.

It could be argued that if the
farmers can’t make their farms

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Did granddad get handouts?
What ever happened to the
covered wagon?

They burned it when Big
Brother turned up at the ranch,
that's what, and self-help is no
longer on the agenda. So Dr. Col-
lins has a suggestion.

Pui an immediate stop to all
foreign aid, tell the 1,100 fat-
salaried bureaucrats who work for
the Canadian International Devel-
opment Agency to start doing
something useful, and give the
farrners a billion dollars rather
than the $600 million.

That way, we'd have $2 billion
change!

It’s no use crying over spilt aid,
of course. But the money that has
been poured down the foreign aid
drain since CIDA came into being
in 1968 would probably be enough
to wipe out this year's budget def-
icit.

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If one-hundredth of it had gone
to the farmers they would be in
clover instead of in trouble and
we could be sure the dough would
not be funnelled into secret Swiss
bank accounts.

As for CIDA, it is one of those
untouchable, political!y-correct
organizations that are bedded in
stone.

You might as well talk about
moving Grouse Mountain to Bur-
naby as talk about getting rid of
it. We're stuck with it until we
disappear down the great Cana-
dian Black Hole.

There is no limit to our
lunacies.

Last year, Haiti got a million
bucks from us toward the holding
of elections. Did the guy who won
the election and was then ousted
have a big dinner with it? Or is
the guy who did the ousting hav-
ing a big dinner with it now?

Pox-and-AIDS-ridden Zambia
is another country that's grateful
to us. It has had “‘loans”’ cf $228
million. of which $86 million has
been forgiven. In due course the

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| The foreign aid gravy train chugs on

rest will be, too.

it would take a battalion of ac-
countants to trace how much
we’ve forgiven or forgotten since
this madness started.

And CIDA isn’t the only fot
charged with giving our money
away. It’s merely the biggest.

The International Development
Research Centre specializes in
funding funny projects. One was
to give Moi University in Kenva
$14,287 to study female circumcei-
sion.

There are reams of suck stuff
and the farmers should read it all.
They might then drive their trac-
tors right through the Parliament
Buildings.

Atout the only country in
Africa that isn’t bureming off us
is South Africa, the well-known
pariah. But when Mr. and Mrs.
Mandela take over, Brian will be
doing his loaves and fishes act
again.

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