"Simplistic and Out of Context" says Ms. Oda

Our new Minister for International Affairs is off to a poor start, to say the least. Her comments on the Senlis Report on Afghanistan are quite literally nonsensical. Perhaps they are the PMO phrase for the month for all MPs because they have no relevance whatsoever to what I watched last night on CPAC. I found the report quite restrained but the facts shocking. $5 million Cdn supposedly went from CIDA to a hospital that serves 8 million people but can't feed its patients, especially the starving children, and can't provide anything but overworked doctors who themselves pay for the medicines for the poor - everyone interviewed there said they had not received any financial assistance. The largest refugee camp has never received food aid. No care for civilians wounded in our warfare unless they can get themselves to one of two military bases. Security restrictions on CIDA personnel so they cannot get to the projects they are funding - but Senlis personnel can get there. And more . . . And all Ms. Oda can say is that the report is 'simplistic and out of context'. Say that to the emaciated three year old displaced and starved by our war and our failed economic policies there.