Juno News - Is Canada part of a global community？

00:00:00.000 so today i want to bring you a foreign policy analysis of the 2021 budget they're not really

00:00:11.120 going to get anywhere else now i think it's important to look at some of these foreign 1.00

00:00:14.900 policy line items because even though they're not as maybe large as some of the domestic spending

00:00:19.260 like the child care or the covid support programs and they don't really affect us on a day-to-day

00:00:23.580 basis you and i as canadian taxpayers are still going to be on the hook for them now i also want

00:00:28.260 to tie in a couple of things with regards to the government policy itself because that's really

00:00:33.260 emblematic of how they view the world and view their role and i think it's something that we

00:00:37.320 should discuss and bring up so first i'm going to start with the budget it all starts on page 293

00:00:42.420 of this huge huge budget and it's actually 725 pages about 300 pages longer than the average

00:00:48.500 but section 9.4 on 290 page 293 says building a safer resilience and equitable world so right there

00:00:55.300 you can see some of the language the government has used and the largest item by far on this one

00:01:01.240 aside from the additional pledges of humanitarian assistance so 165 million dollars to humanitarian

00:01:05.580 assistance 288 million dollars million dollars over three years to the rohingya crisis 80 million

00:01:10.920 dollars over two years to the venezuelan migrant crisis the largest line item is 527 million dollars

00:01:16.400 for extending canada's middle east strategy now i previously spoke about the strategy it was really

00:01:21.800 to combat isis and deal with some of the fallout from the syrian civil war uh there's a military

00:01:26.380 component operation impact which again we spoke about previously and a humanitarian component dealing

00:01:30.980 with refugees created by both situations but in that document there was a line item that i sort of

00:01:36.260 glazed over last time and i think it's important to cover this time because this is really revealing

00:01:41.160 and it says here on the humanitarian assistance part of the uh middle east strategy number three is

00:01:50.140 meeting the specific needs priorities and capacities of vulnerable and marginalized people so that's

00:01:55.440 again it's very much in line with the government and it reads the needs and rights of women and

00:02:00.100 girls continue to be at the heart of our assistance our feminist international assistance policy in 1.00

00:02:04.480 global affairs canada's gender equality and humanitarian action policy recognizes humanitarian assistance is more

00:02:10.180 effective if the specific needs capacities and priorities of vulnerable and marginalized groups

00:02:14.420 are integrated into the humanitarian response so that is uh i guess you know in line with the

00:02:20.400 government's uh talking points it's in line with their worldview but if you look at the feminist 1.00

00:02:24.880 international assistance policy you click on that there's an executive summary and there's one sentence

00:02:30.960 here that really outlines this government's view of foreign affairs and i want to bring it up to you

00:02:36.580 because i want to see what you guys think and it says here on the uh second paragraph canada is part

00:02:41.820 of a global community this is why we invest in international assistance helping to eradicate 1.00

00:02:46.500 poverty and vulnerability around the world enhances our own safety and prosperity and so this is in a

00:02:52.380 nutshell the worldview that the government holds and this is i guess what colors how they're going to

00:02:58.720 decide on foreign policy spending or what type of projects they're going to really get involved in

00:03:02.660 and i really just want to see what did you guys think do you guys feel that international assistance

00:03:08.060 is helping to eradicate poverty and vulnerability and therefore enhancing our own safety and prosperity

00:03:14.580 or do you think this is purely a charitable exercise is this something that canada is supporting

00:03:18.820 another country are there dividends that we are going to get out of this money uh we spoke previously

00:03:23.300 about the types of economic support or political support perhaps even military support that canada is

00:03:28.020 giving out are we going to expect to receive any type of support in return votes at the un i know we

00:03:32.880 pursued a security council seat is there any type of thing that you as a canadian would like to see

00:03:37.440 in return or is again is this simply something that is charitable something that canada as a wealthy

00:03:42.140 country should be obligated or obliged to do and support humanitarian causes around the world so

00:03:46.920 this is i think something that is really important to pick out because it will allow you to understand

00:03:52.360 where this government is coming from and if you understand where they're coming from it's a lot easier to

00:03:56.040 determine where they're going to go and whether or not you support this type of agenda so let me know

00:04:00.540 what you guys think in the comments you guys have really interesting comments on the last video when

00:04:04.260 we spoke about these uh things a lot of differing opinions so really curious what you guys think

00:04:08.140 and would love to see your response so for true north i'm sam ashkenazi thank you so much for watching

00:04:12.800 have yourselves a great day

Juno News - April 24, 2021

Is Canada part of a global community？

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