A Billion Dollars...For What?

Canada is hosting the G8 meeting later this year and already we are asking ...for what? The agenda which is set by the host country in concert with the other members leaves out some crucial elements. The disruption for the city of Toronto and Huntsville will be considerable. The effort to have security will be over the top and after it is all over the result will be the same. The news from the conference is already written as these countries have clear objectives and the bureaucrats have worked out the fine points over the past months.

This money could well have been spent on more worthy issues and the extreme measures to be taken on crowd control could tarnish our image as a country. These meetings could well have been held at the United Nations where the security issues are in place. What a pile of crap to impose this expense on Canada where we already are expecting a deficit of many billions of dollars.

From my view these meetings are essential so there is a meeting of the mind or there are crucial issues like world hunger, African problems or world peace. These could well be sorted out at the UN but these eight countries do not wish to hear from the rest of the world because these few countries control most of the world's wealth. The meetings will be well scripted and there will be hundreds of news media there to scream the results around the world.

One billion plus dollars would help to bring clean water to our aboriginal people, provide housing for families who are homeless, provide health care to those who have special needs or just bring down the deficit. In any case we do not need to wait long to get the message from our leaders at the G8. They will leave the table filled with expensive food and drink to take a photo op for all the world to see. I hope our prime minister gets there on time to be included.