Essay About Prime Minister Of Canada And Prime Minister Trudeau

Third World Countries
Essay title: Third World Countries
What are some of the major problems faced by “Third
World” Countries today? Who should be held responsible
for these problems? Why? What has Canada done to help
“Third World Countries”? There has always been a dominant
country in the world that sets the economic standard
throughout powerful countries. Canada has always been a
top rated economic country, usually behind the United States
and other large Commonwealth countries. Starting back in
the early to mid 60s, Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre
Trudeau decided to use Canadian revenue as foreign aid.
These included “Third World”. Some of the major problems
faced by “Third World” countries today include poor towns
which have had a lack of food sources due to the serious
poverty, lack of clean drinking water, lack of good sanitation
systems, lack of good living conditions, lack of jobs and
there is no industry, therefore no import or export revenue.
The governments of the “Third World” countries have done
horrible jobs of creating good living conditions for their
people and in all have not tried to bring their country out of
their economic slump. As Canada entered it second century,
Prime Minister Trudeau called for a complete review of
Canadas foreign policy. Starting in 1968 interested
Canadians including politicians, journalists, professors,
business leaders, financial experts, as well as church and
labour leaders were invited to offer opinions and advice in
what was called the Trudeau Review. The ending of this
meeting brought about six foreign policy booklets which
outlined the benefits of Canadian foreign aid. Some of these
benefits included to help the Canadian economy grow
stronger, to keep Canada independent, to work for peace
and security, to promote fairness and equality for everyone
and to improve living conditions for all people throughout the
world. The Canadian foreign policy review suggested that
Canada strengthened its ties with Latin America. Trudeau
visited Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela in 1976. Canadas
trade with Latin America increased from $1099 million in
1970 to $3418 million in 1976. Also Canada gave an
increasing amount of development funds to a number of
Latin American countries. Canada, in 1973 had a major
concern about the middle east and made an effort to bring
about a lasting peace to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1050
Canadian military specialists became part of the United
Nations