Canada is missing an opportunity to help women

The government's Feminist International Assistance Policy includes worthy and ambitious goals, but it takes money to get things done.

Paul Hagerman writes that with Canada’s lacklustre aid levels, and its focus on middle-income countries, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured, and her team are missing out on the chance to improve millions of lives. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PAUL HAGERMAN

January 17, 2018

Lillian Wambui has a passion for passionfruit. She runs a successful business selling the nutritious fruit and other excess produce from her farm in the Maai Mahiu region of Kenya, near Lake Naivasha. With food from her farm and income from her market business, Wambui’s six children are well-fed a...

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