It’s time Canada report how it’s following global Sustainable Development Goals

To date, in 2016 and 2017, 66 countries have already volunteered to report on their progress. Unfortunately, Canada is not among that group.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, walks with International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, second from left, his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, second from right, Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef, far left, and Women Deliver president and CEO Katja Iversen, far right, last month on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ANDREW CHUNILALL, JULIA SáNCHEZ

July 18, 2017

In the next 20 years, Canada will become a country of large, diverse urban centres with a growing visible minority, Indigenous, and newcomer populations. By 2036, according to the latest Statistics Canada figures, around 30 per cent of all residents will have been born outside the country. These dem...

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