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Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much for the question. It allows me to respond to some comments made by Ms. Brown, who stated that the majority of Canada's assistance goes to middle-income countries. That is true. You mention something that I also highlighted in the document she quoted: political
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee I think under exceptional circumstances it is good policy for ensuring things like access. For instance, to subsidize access to broadcasting or the Internet in the north or for postal services and things like that, I think government involvement would—
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee I could only answer that on a case-by-case basis, but—
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee Yes. I'm in favour of assistance.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee My main concern is that public funds are needlessly going to activities that could be financed otherwise, and that those funds would be better spent elsewhere. I'm not saying that the activities are necessarily bad, but this is not the best mechanism or necessarily the best place
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee I can't really comment on what other countries are doing or not doing, as much as I can comment on the implications for Canada continuing to do so. As I mentioned, there is a huge reputational risk. These companies have been accused of all sorts of environmental and human right
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee In fact, the Mining Association of Canada has commented that we need that in order to compete. The implication, I believe, is exactly what you have said. Other countries are bundling aid and non-aid in ways that we don't think is right. We have signed on to agreements that say
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee I very much believe that it is not the direction we should take. In fact, it was interesting listening to the presentation of my colleague here, Mr. Shariff. None of that, as far as I noticed, involved any use of public funds. The other thing I wanted to underline was that this w
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee I have not.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee No, I haven't.
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you for the question. There's no doubt that resource extraction can generate revenues that can be used well by a developing country. This is something that has been touted by CIDA, and in fact by the Prime Minister, as sort of the wisdom of relying on resource extraction
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm very happy to be here to meet all of you and to have this chance to share my thoughts and analysis with you today. As you've heard, I'm a professor of political science at the University of Ottawa. I'm also a member of the McLeod Group, wh
May 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Stephen Brown