‘Absolutely the wrong direction’: feds respond to calls for more money for foreign ministry with budget cuts

Global Affairs Canada will be subject to three fiscal years of mounting cuts of $118-million in 2024-25, $179-million in 2025-26, and $243-million in 2026-27, according to the latest main estimates.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has echoed the call for GAC to receive more funding despite cuts now being announced. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 13, 2024

Amid mounting calls for more investment in Canada’s foreign ministry, including from Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, the department will face growing cuts in the coming years.

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