I don't think it's a secret that this government has cut everything, or many things, unfortunately. We tend to support...well, aid countries that have something that we need, such as oil. In the case of Rwanda, what do they have? Nothing.
Any journalism thing that I've done through some kind of government support, such as teaching in Rwanda at the university, that's been cut. I was the last journalist to get the CIHR fellowship. It has been cut. It was only $25,000. There's only one foreign fellowship now which was set up by the family of former journalist Jim Travers who died. His family set that up.
It's very difficult to go into these countries and report on important issues like this. It's very difficult to see refugees who come here, or immigrants who come here and are struck by the reality of what it's like to live here. It's not easy. Anytime I travel to places like Rwanda, of course a lot of people want to come to Canada because they think it's the best place on earth to live, but if you're not educated and you're black and you're poor, it's a struggle.