The Liberal government’s new feminist development policy makes no new spending commitments for foreign aid, despite numerous calls by international agencies to do so. The new plan, unveiled Friday by International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, does reallocate $150 million of the existing aid budget to women’s organizations in 30 countries over the next five years. They said, ‘We need Canada around the table, we need Canada to speak loud and clear about progressive values’“Our partners were asking not for money; that was not the first thing they were asking (for),” Bibeau said. They said, ‘We need Canada around the table, we need Canada to speak loud and clear about progressive values. And the discrepancy between the government’s approach to the Canadian military and international aid was not lost on some.

Source: National Post June 09, 2017 17:15 UTC