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OTTAWA - Canada is hoarding unprecedented economic wealth while human insecurity - at home and abroad - deepens, says a new international report. Squandering Canada's Surplus, a report to Social Watch, an international citizens' watchdog group, is critical of Canada's recent decision to reduce the country's debt-to-GDP ratio to 25 per cent in 10 quick years. "Aggressive debt reduction as a political priority is a dubious way to spend Canada's unprecedented fiscal surplus," says the report's author, economist Armine Yalnizyan.