At what cost?

Sending Canadian troops in Afghanistan has cost us billions of dollars each year. I think that we should spend this money for other purposes.

First of all, there are many expenses for this project. In fact, the Canadian government finances this mission to pay the soldiers, provide them with supplies such as food, ammo and weaponry. Also, not to be cold hearted, but we still have to take care of soldiers who are back from Afghanistan for psychiatric treatments (trauma), medical care (injuries) and funerals (fallen ones). Nonetheless, we can prevent all of this from happening. Instead, we could develop our own country. This means we focus on other important matters such as healthcare, by improving waiting time in emergency rooms in hospitals and hiring more nurses and doctors, education, by hiring more teachers and improving our learning program, and maybe the ecological aspect, like promoting cleaner energy production, recycling, public transportation, etc.

This concludes our financial section of this blog, which was trying to make you realize that we should focus more on our country when it comes to economics.

Michael