KCKCC Bowers-McFarland Neg

Canada Counterplan

Cont 2.  Solvency

Canada has a unique advantage in African aid over other countries -- shared legal, economic, and cultural ties ensure solvency while avoiding anti-Western sentiment.

CCAfrica 2004 (Brief #1, “Canada & Africa Matching Reputation With Action in the 21^st Century”, Canadian Council on Africa, September, http://www.ccafrica.ca/publications/Briefing%20Notes%201.pdf)

Since the 1960's...Africa in the 21st century

CANADA AID SOLVES DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN AFRICAN THROUGH GOOD GOVERNANCE AND FREE PRESS MEASURES, AND IT’S ALREADY INVOLVED IN CIVIL SOCIETY

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada 2005 (“Canada's Contribution to the G8 Africa Action Plan: Consolidating Africa's Place at the Centre of Canada's International Cooperation Agenda”, June, http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/africa/aap-national-report-2005-en.asp) 

Governance-reform of the...working on transforming attitudes

Net Bene

INCREASING AID WOULD BOOST CANADIAN SOFT POWER BY STRENGTHENING ITS FOREIGN POLICY GOALS

Kilgour-Member of Parliament Edmonton-Beaumont- 1999 (David, “Human Security and Drugs”, April 7,  http://www.david-kilgour.com/secstate/drugsecu.htm)

In this context...service of our goals.

Canadian soft power is key to solve for terrorism, environmental despoliation, human rights abuses, proliferation, and global human security issues

Nye-Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and author of Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power-1999 (Joseph S. Jr., “The Challenge of Soft Power”, March 8, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,21163,00.html) 

If world politics...rather than backroom bargaining.

Deficit Committee 

Deficit committee will compromise, but everything has to be on the table

Smith & Cowan, 8/15 (Donna and Richard, Reuters staff members, “Glimmers of hope for deficit panel”, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/us-usa-debt-idUSTRE77E29820110815)

Prompting some hope...revamp of the U.S. tax code.

Foreign aid causes GOP to backlash negotiations

Rogin, 11 (Josh, staff reporter for Foreign Policy, 8/9/11, http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/09/can_kerry_save_the_state_department_on_the_supercommittee)

The State Department...he one day hopes to lead.

Super committee failure causes extinction

Ornstein, 9/14 (Norman J. Resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, “Deficit Panel Could Change Economic World”, http://www.aei.org/article/104137)

 Lachman is one of...Don't blow it.

Covert Ops