"Mothers and children around the world are counting on us for action. Without serious financial commitments from our government to programs that will end child deaths, promises and announcements about focus on children are just good intentions paving the way to more deaths." Dave Toycen, president and CEO of World Vision Canada

"Eighty-seven percent of Canadians don't buy the economic crisis as an excuse for dropping our national and G8 commitment to help reduce child deaths by two thirds by 2015. In fact, 90 per cent of them say Canada should use its influence to make sure the promise is kept." Sean Simpson, Ipsos-Reid

"My three-year-old daughter had pneumonia last month and was airlifted to Sick Kids and treated there for five days. Most kids will never get that kind of help and that's just not right." Britt Hamilton, Ontario mother of two

Source: WORLD VISION CANADA