Canada’s leadership on sexual and reproductive health must be matched by healthy development budget

In the context of a flat-lined official development assistance budget—which is well-below the levels expected from Canada—it is time for the Canadian government to cement the leadership it clearly wants on the global stage with a healthy and proportionate budget to support its ambitions.

Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Marie-Claude Bibeau, who made a $20-million commitment on behalf of Canada at the “She Decides” high-level pledging conference last week in Brussels. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY JULIA SANCHEZ

March 8, 2017

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