Jul 04
20120
CIDA | Canadian International Development Agency, Humanitarian Agencies, The Occupation of Haiti
NGOs and Empire | Canadian Aid Agencies Take Empire Building Seriously
"Canada’s development NGOs, in other words, are not quite as non-governmental as they seem, and with politicians holding the purse strings, these NGOs face serious limits on what they can do and say. Harper’s cuts, however, did not provoke a sober reappraisal of the distortions and restrictions that accompany government funding. Instead, the cuts occasioned an attempt to breathe new life into old fantasies about Canadian benevolence and NGO independence."