It’s Canada’s time to lead on women’s rights at home, abroad

Income equality, sexual violence, and gender discrimination are not foreign ills. They infect Canada too.

International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s commitment to make women and girls a focus of international assistance is encouraging, writes Carine Guidicelli .The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY CARINE GUIDICELLI

October 10, 2016

TORONTO—Maybe it takes a rock star to remind us of who we are as Canadians and what we are capable of. At the recent meeting of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, U2 lead singer Bono declared “the world needs more Canada.” These words were spoken at an urgent time fo...

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