A consideration of the economic stimuli that governments almost everywhere plan to apply to their economies leads, naturally enough, to an examination of all public spending. Are there areas where governments can cut costs in order to free up more funds or keep their deficits as low as possible? In Canada, one commitment that is coming into question is this nation’s role in Afghanistan. But there is a very good reason that Canada is in Afghanistan and it is not the publicly stated one.

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