Canada has sent lots of troops to Afghanistan. One of its six priorities is political reconciliation. However, this form of cooperation has somewhat failed because there is no reconciliation with the Taliban. This effort only includes the organizations that agree to renounce to violence, respect human rights and accept the government’s legitimacy. This rules out many organizations including the Taliban. To end the violence, we must talk with the terrorists and try to make an agreement. There isn’t much to reconciliate with the organizations that Canada is currently talking to. That explains partially why Canada is spending only 14 million over three years compared to the 355 millions used to help advance Afghanistan’s capacity for democratic governance. Canada is spending a lot to help improve the Government of Afghanistan’s capacity to communicate with its citizens. That goal is hard to achieve when the population doesn’t know who to trust so Canada has spent more money trying to reassure and make itself appear as a friend. Canada has also spent money to help the afghan government to encourage dialogue. All the work mentioned before is about Canada’s approach to reconciliate. In general, political reconciliation is useless and costly because the Canadian government refuses any dialogue with the Talibans.
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