Aid: the face of Canada for many in the developing world

As Canadians mark International Development Week, they ought to know that it’s often through volunteers for foreign-aid groups that Canada is represented to poorer countries.

Bui Vai Nguyen, 24, with his 11-month-old daughter, Bui Thi Thao, and 19-year-old wife, Bui Thi Phuong, in their home in rural northern Vietnam on Oct. 31, 2014. The family received help from MACDI, funded by a Canadian government-supported non-governmental organization. Aid is often the face of Canada abroad, writes John Longhurst. The Hill Times photograph by Carl Meyer

Opinion

BY JOHN LONGHURST

February 7, 2019

What is Canada’s face to the world—hockey? Tim Hortons? Mounties? It’s all those things. But for hundreds of millions of people in the developing world, it’s something far more significant—aid. For many in the world’s poorer countries, the face of Canada is life-saving food, medicine, ...

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