Canada planning support for Laos

Canada is planning to help the country of Laos by restarting funding to help with its deadly infestation of cluster bombs.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird will reportedly announce a $1-million contribution during a trip to the country Tuesday. The funding will be managed through a United Nations agency. Canada contributed more than $2-million between 1996 and 2011 to help clear cluster munitions from Laos. But then cut its funding in 2012. Laos is the country most contaminated by cluster bombs, after U.S. B-52 bombers dropped two million tonnes of bombs on it over nine years.