As if pissing away 2 billion on a failed gun registry in Canada wasn’t enough.
CANADA HELPS AFRICANS PREVENT AND RESOLVE VIOLENT CONFLICT
March 9, 2004 – A $4.5 million contribution by Canada over three years to the ECOWAS Peace Fund will support conflict prevention, crisis management and peacebuilding activities, and will contribute to a scholarship fund that will enable West African civilians and military personnel to benefit from training for peace support operations at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, in Ghana.
Well how about that… Annan was in Ottawa the day this was announced … what are the odds?
The project will also help ECOWAS establish a unit that will work to stop the flow of small weapons into and across borders in these countries.
Eh, so what does that last line mean, in practice? Well, basically, it means they’re going to purchase guns from the criminals. Apparently, firearms are a finite resource, and if they just buy them all up, people won’t be able to shoot one another. Our tax dollars at work.
Did anyone point out to ECOWAS Canada’s success in controlling the flow of illegal firearms to the African-Canadian community?