International assistance: sound investment, good foreign policy

Governments focused on the well-being of citizens and the sovereignty of the state tend to give precedence to 'hard' foreign policy priorities, such as national defence, anti-terrorism, and border security.

Canada’s budget 2017 was a missed opportunity, not only for millions of people in poor and fragile states, but for Canadians themselves, writes Gillian Barth president and CEO of CARE Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GILLIAN BARTH

April 3, 2017

Canada’s budget 2017 was a missed opportunity—not only for millions of people in poor and fragile states, but for Canadians themselves. International assistance is too often treated in the federal budget as a nice-to-have, but non-essential foreign policy expenditure. Governments focused on th...

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