Canada’s G7 leadership: the ambition is there, but is the budget?

Prime Minister Mark Carney. Canada needs a foreign policy that enables it to have meaningful impact on the global forces that increasingly define the health and sustainability of our societies, writes Joseph Ingram.

Instead of acknowledging the moral imperative of reducing global inequality, the government has chosen to further cut an already paltry foreign aid budget by $2.7-billion over the next four years.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOSEPH INGRAM

November 24, 2025

Producing a national budget in a time of exceptional global chaos—what many scholars and scientists consider today to be a “polycrisis”—is no easy feat. Producing something that satisfies a majority of Canadian voters, including economic and political pundits, i...

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