Via the Canadian Center for Policy Studies:
All told, according to the 2008/09 Public Accounts, CIDA handed out a whopping $249.76-million to advocacy groups for “pubic engagement initiates” in that fiscal year alone!
That’s almost a quarter billion dollars that Canadian taxpayers are paying mostly left-leaning advocacy groups to lobby for more taxpayer money.
To put things into perspective, that sum represents nearly 8 percent of the total amount of money CIDA transferred in that year ($3.17-billion), money that most Canadians assume – in good faith – is going to foreign aid.
