The Truth Behind Harper's G8 Agenda

In a group where they talk about the economy, especially now during a recession, Stephen Harper has decided to talk about protecting mothers and children in third world countries. For Canada we do not even have the 8th largest economy but we are still in this group since we negotiate our "goodness" with those countries. The G8 will be hosted by Canada this year and Stephen Harper will be host. Instead of talking about the economy Harper will negotiate goodness to be part of this club by deciding to talk about saving mothers and children in third world countries. This is definitely not out of the goodness of his heart that he wants to talk about it but rather to boost his popularity, which is slowly slipping away. He is obviously sucking up to the world. Just look at how he was chumming around with charitable people like Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was praising over Harper of saying how generous and good Canada and Harper is. There again is an example of how we negotiate our goodness to get our way. Harper is pulling the mother and child card out to make Harper look good on the world stage so that Canadians in the next election will vote for him. Also he is trying to look good for other nations so that they will open up to us more and be friends with Canada. As Thomas Hobbes will state no one does anything for anyone unless they get something out of it. Hobbes is right especially with the example. Harper also could be using this to boost his women votes for him which is low in the past elections. Another reason also is that mother mortality is a simple thing to solve according to the globe and mail. Harper can easily fix this problem with all the other nations. Harper knows he can fix it so that is why he is doing it so then people will praise him and then all the world leaders will love to work with Harper. Harper has been known not to be generous to NGO's which is surprising since what is happening now. Harper is just creating a mask of generosity and safety so that people will vote for him and other countries will like him and others will like Canada .Overall Canada and Harper will negotiate with their goodness during this G8. Harper will use this opportunity to gain votes and confidence for himself and Canada will use this opportunity to renew their memberships with all theses clubs that Canada is part of. So when Canada and the world hear Harper at the G8 this year they will hear a man who is generous and caring but the truth is he is just using the mother and child part for an excuse to push the polls and the other world leaders in his favor so that Canada can stay in these big boy groups which we don't really deserve to be in.And even we were not to care about if he is doing good for us or not because according to Robert Fox he is not clear where the government will get the money for this as he states there is " no clarity". Most of our money for foreign aids like CIDA is going to help Haiti according to The Globe And Mail. "The United Nations had hoped to reduce the number of deaths related to pregnancy by 75 per cent by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals" according to Stephen Harper's website.

For helpful sites with more info go to

http://g8.gc.ca/home/
http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=3093