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Verner's Plan for CIDA: Apply Afghanistan strategy to Haiti & others

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June 8, 2007

Verner's Plan for CIDA: Apply Afghanistan strategy to Haiti & others

International Co-operation Minister Josée Verner Outlines her Foreign Aid Agenda in today's Embassy Magazine:

The government plans to increase CIDA's field presence and create comprehensive websites to update Canadians about progress, something the minister says has already been done in Afghanistan, and which [Verner] would like to see in all of Canada's development partners, though she's not sure when or how.

"This is because we feel this is the best way to follow the projects, and this is better for aid," she said.

"I will find a way. We'll find a way. We are working. My vision is to apply that to Haiti, for example."


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Terrible for Haiti

If Verner's plan get its way, it would spelled trouble for Haiti because it would enforced the so-called FOCAL plan implemented by the Paul Martin liberal Government after the 2004 coup d'état.