Budget 2019: Peanuts for International Development0

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• 22 mars 2019

From the international development perspective, Budget 2019 is the most disappointing federal budget since the current Liberal government was elected. Foreign aid warrants a mere three paragraphs. The first repeats past commitments and the third describes how the government will …

Budget Bill Will Reduce Government Accountability for Canadian Foreign Aid0

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• 28 novembre 2018

By Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill

To help ensure that Canadian foreign aid is spent on supporting people in need in developing countries — rather than things like white elephants and Canadian commercial interests — Canada has legislation that mandates …

Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada Can Do to Promote International Development0

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• 10 octobre 2018

Of late, many commentators, from humble bloggers to the more august Toronto Star and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have lamented Canada’s relative lack of generosity in foreign aid and called on the Canadian government to increase the …

What Do Canada’s Peers Say about Canadian Development Co-operation?0

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• 19 septembre 2018

by Hunter McGill and Stephen Brown

Every five years or so, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts a “peer review” of the countries that belong to its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). This year was Canada’s turn and …

“The System is Broken”: Canada’s Latest Rationale for Stinginess0

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• 2 octobre 2017

“I would love to increase the aid budget,” admitted Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Liberal Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s Minister of International Development, speaking at a recent conference organized by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation. But, she argued, …