‘Insufficient for the scale of need’: foreign service reform gets initial ‘down payment,’ but follow-up needed, say Parliamentarians

'We needed the Liberals to come forward with some leadership, and I don’t see that in this budget,' says NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly's calls for more investment in her department were met with a modest response in the recent budget.

With modest initial investments in Canada’s foreign service reform included in the recent federal budget, one Senator is calling the spending plan “a down payment,” while an opposition critic says more funding is needed on the foreign file as the budget downplays diplo...

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