Darcie

Feb 1 2013, 12:11 PM

:winking71: Just don't spend my money willy nilly on MPs hooplalas

haili

Feb 1 2013, 12:51 PM

Better to spend on social programs than wars and executive excursions to other countries.

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Canada and the United Nations (Information from DFAIT)

The United Nations is the only multilateral organization whose membership approaches universality and whose agenda encompasses all areas of human activity, in every region of the world. It is, in effect, the marketplace at which much of the world's multilateral diplomacy is conducted, the mechanism through which the views of the international community are given expression, and the forum in which grievances are aired and, when Member States are so inclined, resolved. The UN's ability to live up to its founders' ideals, and to its potential, is almost exclusively determined by the 188 countries which, collectively, constitute the United Nations. Our successes are its successes; our failures, its failures. This Organization can accomplish only that which its Member States allow.

Canada has been an active and committed participant in the United Nations since its founding in 1945 in San Francisco, where Canada played a key role in the drafting of the Charter. Individual Canadians have served vital roles within the United Nations, and many of the Organization's great accomplishments have had a Canadian dimension. For example, fifty years ago John Humphrey was the principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Lester Pearson helped to invent the concept of peacekeeping, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to resolve the Suez Crisis of 1956; and Maurice Strong chaired both the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm, and the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio de Janeiro, and also served as founding Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Canadians have occupied key positions within the United Nations System, including the Presidency of the General Assembly (Lester Pearson, in 1952-53) and Canada served on the Security Council in 1948-49, 1958-59, 1967-68, 1977-78 and 1989-90. In January 1998, a Canadian, Louise Fréchette, was appointed the first-ever UN Deputy Secretary-General.

As set out in the Charter, the purposes of the United Nations are:

- to maintain international peace and security;

- to develop friendly relations among nations; and,

- to co-operate internationally in solving economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems and in promoting better standards of living and respect for human rights.

haili

Feb 2 2013, 06:11 AM

Priority has to be to the people of Canada who all pay taxes in one way or another, even the ones one welfare who pay sales tax. People on Employment Insurance paid into it as did pensioners, so which social services should be cut?

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Canadians are peacekeepers and have had this as a long time tradition.

haili

Feb 3 2013, 01:54 AM

I believe you mentioned social services and the need to pay for them.