Even on an airplane they remind the adults, "Be sure to put your own oxygen mask on, BEFORE helping anyone else put on theirs."

Unless Canada is on firm financial footing, with low unemployment, no housing shortages and a prosperous economy, we have no business trying to help others until we help our own countrymen.  That there are others in the world in poorer straits than us is not reason enough to jeopardise what we currently have.