Afghanistan gets more bilateral aid from Canada than any other country,

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Last Updated Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:10:19 EST
CBC News
Afghanistan gets more bilateral aid from Canada than any other country, a development official says.


INDEPTH: Afghanistan

"While attention has been focused on the 2,200 Canadian soldiers working with international allies to uproot insurgents, that's just one of Canada's three-pronged policy – defence, development, diplomacy – for the country.

Canada will spend $616 million in Afghanistan in the eight years ending in 2009, said Bob Johnston, a senior official at the Canadian International Development Agency.

Before 2001, Canadian assistance was about $10 million a year, CIDA's website says. About $100 million has been allocated for the year ending in March.

CIDA's work is aimed at helping improve the government, Johnston told a media briefing in Ottawa on Thursday.

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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/02/02/afghanistan-canada060202.html

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1. Canada has class! Talk and all ass is the U.S.

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2. Could have been the US. But somehow - humanitarianism first was

not what they wanted. Neocons are really strange.