Canadians ought to follow the money in Afghanistan

Canada is aiding Afghan security forces to the tune of $110-million a year, yet they have been implicated in child sexual abuse.

Afghan National Police recruits are given weapons training using AK-47 machine guns as part of their basic policing training in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2011. The police force is part of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces. Sgt. Matthew McGregor photograph courtesy of Canadian Forces Combat Camera

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

January 31, 2018

OTTAWA—Afghanistan was back in the news last weekend following a deadly suicide attack by Taliban extremists detonating an explosive-packed ambulance in the embassy district of Kabul, which killed 103 and wounded upwards of 230. This, of course, is only the latest such brazen attack in the Afghan...

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