Canada has the fiscal ability to loan more to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean

International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan should step up on loaning more of Canada's SDR funds to countries in need, writes Dena Sharafdin.

Why keep something you don’t need when there are others who can use it? When the International Monetary Fund issued the special drawing rights (SDR) to countries to use as emergency funds in the case of national crises, low- and middle-income countries received an amo...

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