To the Editor:
I am asking only one Christmas gift this year: the end of the freeze on Canada's foreign aid.
Freezing foreign aid like Harper's government did condemns a countless number of men, women and children to suffering, disease and death. It also slows down access to education and better leaving for the poorest of the world.
(I used the term "foreign aid" to be well understood, but in my mind it's not aid; it's rather giving back to the poorest of the world a tiny part of what they were stripped off by rich countries over the years through intimidation, military presence, destabilization, destruction of their infrastructures and freeze and seizure of their assets.)
I am not rich, I did not contribute to Mr. Harper's party and I am not either a creationist; nevertheless, I hope Mr. Harper won't forget me during the Christmas period and will lift the freeze on Canadian foreign aid.
Bruno Marquis, Gatineau QC.
