OTTAWA, Nov 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Official Opposition Foreign Affairs Critic Bob Mills released a report yesterday articulating Reform’s foreign policy in which Mills calls the United Nations “corrupt and wasteful.”
Mills suggests that Canada should follow the lead taken by the US of withholding funds until the international organization agrees to needed reforms.
“Instead of bad-mouthing the Americans for not keeping up their part of the payments, we should again ask why they’re not paying, and then we’ll get into the corruption, the socialist organization that it is,” Mills told the Ottawa Citizen.
“If it fails to modernize, if it fails to reform, then it obviously would be subject to Canada saying, ‘Why should we pay for something that just isn’t operating?’”
The paper notes that Canada pays nearly 3% or $42 million of the UN’s annual operating costs and another $27 million towards UN peacekeeping.
Despite this, Mills says, “Canada’s influence internationally has certainly declined and our voice, whether it’s (in) NATO or whether it’s at the UN is slowly putting us into almost Third World status.”