Canadian Finance Minister Ralph Goodale addressed reporters half way through his ten day tour of the continent to report that Africa is poor.
Toronto Star;
“It’s obviously important to Africa, but it’s also important to the world” to find solutions to long-standing development and poverty issues, he added. “We all have a stake in that. … It’s partly altruism but quite frankly, for the rest of the world, it’s partly also self-interest,” he said. “And those of us who are privileged to live in some of the more comfortable parts of the world need to understand that.”
Of course. It’s all about geography.
Perhaps Goodale can draw on the nearly uninterrupted half century of Liberal success in throwing money at findiing creative solutions to solve the problems of poverty, unemployment, tribal tensions, violence and illiteracy on Canadian Indian reserves.
It *is* all about “geography” – of the mind.
Are you able to cut down marxist thickets, drain the socialist swamps, and pound tunnels through the pre-industrial tribal mountains….and make productive fields and clear running streams and wide roads?