OTTAWA — Humanitarian groups are giving Tuesday’s federal budget a thumbs down, saying a projected $1.3\u002Dbillion cut to foreign aid will end Canadian projects…
Ahead of Tuesday’s budget, officials warned the sector that Ottawa saw that bump as responding to exceptional circumstances, and that the Liberals might instead commit to building on the 2019 allocation instead of last year’s.
“It undermines our security as a country and the contribution we are making to combat compounding global crises, whether that’s climate change or the rollback on human rights and democracy, or COVID-19 scarring and the effect that that has had on education and health around the world.”Article content
“Multi-year commitments require us to be planning, and to be able to show our international partners that we’re in it for the long game, so that we can also influence other governments to join us.” In any case, the lack of a separate allocation for Ukraine within the aid funding makes the numbers impossible to parse, humanitarian groups say.
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