Dollars Keep Rolling in for Haiti

Saturday, January 23, 2010 06:19 PM

Prince George, B.C.- Canadians continue to show their generosity towards the relief efforts for Haiti.

The donations so far to the Canada For Haiti telethon campaign total $18 million dollars. That means, with the Federal Government matching dollar for dollar, a full $36 million has been raised. The Federal Government has announced it is removing the $50 million dollar cap it had initially put on the dollar for dollar offer. More than 100 thousand Canadians made a donation either on the phone, or on line.

In Prince George, the donations to the Red Cross alone have topped $65 thousand, and that office was open all day Saturday to collect further donations.

You can still make a donation to the Canada for Haiti campaign by calling 1-877-51-HAITI, or by going on line to www.canadaforhaiti.com . Donations of $20 or more qualify for a tax receipt.

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Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 06:19 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: smileyfacetoyou on January 25 2010 7:59 AM

I am glad the city of PG and Canada has the money to donate to the relief effort of Haiti.
I really hope that the money that is collected will really go to the people. It would be nice if it could be spent locally or somewhere in Canada. Valued added products. Not raw products.
I also hope that we have money left over to help the school that is closing, or the hospital that has to close beds. What about our goverment matching the money we raise for our local school to stay open.
I hope our goverment has money left over to help our people close to home when the big one hits.
Hopefully its not during the Olymics.

Posted by: ski50 on January 25 2010 9:57 AM

Actually, what I'm wondering about is where the money is coming from that the government is using to match donations. I thought we were in debt? If so, that means we're borrowing the money and paying interest on it in order to give it to another country. Why not ask the guy whose lending us the money to do the right thing and donate since he's got so much.

And is this going to solve anything. haiti is still sitting on a fault line. Is the world willing to spend the money necessary to build 8 million people earthquake proof homes. We don't even have that in Vancouver.

What I'd like to see is Haitian orphan children adopted into North America. We have negative population growth and this would be a great way to permantly ease their suffering and provide a population base to provide goods and services for our aging population. The great thing about these kids is they would be raised as Canadians and would assimilate better into our culture.