Global Fund calls on feds to increase funding by ‘at least’ 15 per cent, as development observers criticize Liberal foreign assistance

Former NDP MP Svend Robinson called the Liberals' foreign aid funding 'totally unacceptable.'

The OECD has criticized the Canadian government's decline in foreign aid spending, despite increases promised in the 2015 election. Maryam Monsef is the minister of International Development and minister for Women and Gender Equality.

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BY Neil Moss

April 29, 2019

A multinational humanitarian organization is looking for the Canadian government to increase its funding by 15 per cent to fight global epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, at the same as the Liberal government's foreign assistance funding is being questioned. The Global Fund is seeking $1...

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