Canada must tackle root causes of displacement, conflict, as well as their effects

Canada can champion smart responses to global crises. Investing in agriculture is key.

International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks on Parliament Hill on June 13. This spring, the Canadian government announced a dollar-for-dollar matching fund to help spur Canadians to give to famine relief in four countries where 20 million are at risk of starvation. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY JARED KLASSEN, SHAUGHN MCARTHUR

July 5, 2017

OTTAWA—Twenty million people in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen are facing famine. It is being called the largest humanitarian crisis since the inception of the United Nations. In Yemen, the last two years of conflict has caused such severe economic breakdown that today some seven millio...

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