Strong, proud and free-riding
Canadians like to see themselves as global benefactors, but in fact they have been pinching pennies on aid and defence
WHEN heart-rending images flashed across the world of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old from Syria who drowned off the Turkish coast, people everywhere were appalled. But the pang of conscience was especially acute in Canada.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Strong, proud and free-riding”
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