Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said that a bill on foreign aid will not include a blanket exemption to terrorism laws for humanitarian workers in areas such as Afghanistan. “Our government considered all possible remedies, including the possibility of a humanitarian exemption to the existing law. However, a statutory carve-out would not provide in our…

Global Affairs Canada has not been properly tracking the outcome of approximately $3.5 billion spent on projects to advance gender equality abroad, the Auditor General says in one of her latest reports. “It is imperative that Global Affairs Canada act immediately to improve its information management practices and reporting on results to show parliamentarians and…

Commentary When rich nations fall into recession, their governments do what they can—but after 100 years of socialism (the entire 20th century), those governments know now not to intervene in the economy. To prevent a financial crisis, yes, they loan money to banks, but otherwise, they stay back. Poor nations haven’t learned this. Recession or…

Commentary U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement at the 2022 G7 meeting that $600 billion would be given to the developing world should set off alarm bells across the West. What is driving this massive transfer of wealth from the developed world to developing countries? The reason is the U.S. State Department, and Biden managed to…

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban terrorist group bolstered its economic team on Tuesday, naming a commerce minister and two deputies as the group tries to revive a financial system in shock from the abrupt end to billions of dollars in foreign aid. Nooruddin Azizi, a businessman from Panjshir province north of Kabul, was named as acting minister…

LONDON—Britain will go ahead with a temporary cut to its foreign aid budget after Prime Minister Boris Johnson defeated a rebellion in parliament on Tuesday by lawmakers in his Conservative Party. The government won a vote by 333 to 298 on its proposal to cut the minimum spend on overseas development to 0.5 percent of…

Commentary On May 28, President Joe Biden made a shocking note in his remarks to American service members at a Virginia military base, “We’re in a battle between democracies and autocracies.” He also said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping once told him that he “firmly believes that China, before the year [20]30, ’35, is going…

OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole reversed his predecessor’s position on foreign aid spending Tuesday, saying that if elected, a Conservative government wouldn’t cut that budget. But he said he would look to mirror previous Conservative foreign aid programs that tied funds to specific, measurable outcomes. “I want to maintain and modernize and make more accountable our…

The $1.9 trillion relief bill under consideration by the Senate contains some $10 billion for the global response to the COVID-19 outbreak, including several hundred million for pandemic-related efforts that have both a domestic and international scope. The spending proposals are featured across five sections of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations portion of the…

The film “Obsessed: Canada’s Coercive Diplomacy” explores the possibility that Canada’s foreign aid to Africa may be doing more harm than good, pushing abortion as a key component of sexual and reproductive rights