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  • Where Do the Conservative Leadership Candidates Stand on International Issues?

    Where Do the Conservative Leadership Candidates Stand on International Issues?

    • Analysis, CIPS, Repost
    • August 6, 2020

    The voting for the next head of the Conservative Party of Canada has begun. The winner, to be announced on August 21, will become the Leader of the Official Opposition. In the midst of the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic …

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  • Protecting Canada: A Dangerous Justification for Foreign Aid

    Protecting Canada: A Dangerous Justification for Foreign Aid

    • Analysis, Repost
    • May 25, 2020

    Two prominent umbrella groups of Canadian development organizations – CCIC and CanWaCH – recently launched a COVID-themed campaign to drum up support for Canadian foreign aid. In doing so, they have embraced a nationalistic, threat-based case for aid that verges …

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  • Foreign Aid Flows: The Canadian Government Is Still Not Stepping Up to the Plate

    Foreign Aid Flows: The Canadian Government Is Still Not Stepping Up to the Plate

    • Analysis, Repost
    • April 20, 2020

    Despite talking a good game when it comes to foreign aid, Canada is still not stepping up to the plate. Baseball metaphors are not my forte, but it is clear that Canada is refusing to contribute its fair share of …

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  • Is the Trudeau Government Losing Interest in LGBTI Rights?

    Is the Trudeau Government Losing Interest in LGBTI Rights?

    • Analysis
    • January 21, 2020

    Justin Trudeau has been a better ally to gay communities than his predecessor. However, he seems to be losing interest in protecting the rights of LGBTI people in other countries, despite the desperate need for such support.


    Justin Trudeau’s government …

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  • Foreign Aid on the Campaign Agenda

    Foreign Aid on the Campaign Agenda

    • News, Report
    • October 8, 2019

    While one federal party leader pledges to cut foreign aid, others fail to agree to meet Canada’s long-standing commitments. In the run-up to the 2019 elections, international assistance finally did earn a place on the campaign agenda. However, all major …

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  • Sending More Canadians Abroad: Innovative or Old-Fashioned Development Assistance?

    Sending More Canadians Abroad: Innovative or Old-Fashioned Development Assistance?

    • Analysis, Repost, Research
    • September 12, 2019

    Why is the Canadian government trotting out such an old-fashioned approach to aid?

    Does the world need more Canadians? Global Affairs Canada recently announced a new initiative to send more Canadians abroad to help developing countries fight poverty. The new …

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  • Budget 2019: Peanuts for International Development

    Budget 2019: Peanuts for International Development

    • Analysis
    • March 22, 2019

    From the international development perspective, Budget 2019 is the most disappointing federal budget since the current Liberal government was elected. Foreign aid warrants a mere three paragraphs. The first repeats past commitments and the third describes how the government will …

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  • Budget Bill Will Reduce Government Accountability for Canadian Foreign Aid

    Budget Bill Will Reduce Government Accountability for Canadian Foreign Aid

    • Analysis
    • November 28, 2018

    By Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill

    To help ensure that Canadian foreign aid is spent on supporting people in need in developing countries — rather than things like white elephants and Canadian commercial interests — Canada has legislation that mandates …

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  • Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada Can Do to Promote International Development

    Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada Can Do to Promote International Development

    • Analysis
    • October 10, 2018

    Of late, many commentators, from humble bloggers to the more august Toronto Star and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have lamented Canada’s relative lack of generosity in foreign aid and called on the Canadian government to increase the …

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  • What Do Canada’s Peers Say about Canadian Development Co-operation?

    What Do Canada’s Peers Say about Canadian Development Co-operation?

    • Analysis
    • September 19, 2018

    by Hunter McGill and Stephen Brown

    Every five years or so, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts a “peer review” of the countries that belong to its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). This year was Canada’s turn and …

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  • The ODA Accountability Act at Ten: Time for an Update

    The ODA Accountability Act at Ten: Time for an Update

    • Analysis
    • September 5, 2018

    by Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill

    Ten years ago, the Canadian parliament unanimously passed the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act, following years of intensive lobbying by Canadian civil society organizations. Prior to 2008, Canada had not had any legislation …

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  • The Commonwealth’s Refusal to Address LGBTI Rights

    The Commonwealth’s Refusal to Address LGBTI Rights

    • Analysis
    • April 25, 2018

    One of the best predictors of whether a country criminalizes homosexuality is whether it is a member of the Commonwealth. In 36 out of 53 Commonwealth countries, sexual acts in private between two consenting adults of the same sex are …

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  • Canada Among Donors: What Do the Latest Foreign Aid Statistics Tell Us?

    Canada Among Donors: What Do the Latest Foreign Aid Statistics Tell Us?

    • Analysis
    • April 17, 2018

    The preliminary aid statistics for 2017 are now out. What do they tell us about global trends and Canadian foreign aid?

    Globally, official development assistance (ODA) from traditional donors has held steady. The total amount, US$147 billion, is down slightly …

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  • Budget 2018: A Bit of Good News for Development

    Budget 2018: A Bit of Good News for Development

    • Analysis
    • March 1, 2018

    by Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill

    If you watched Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget speech in the House of Commons yesterday, you had to be paying close attention to catch the one sentence that refers to foreign aid: “We will …

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  • “The System is Broken”: Canada’s Latest Rationale for Stinginess

    “The System is Broken”: Canada’s Latest Rationale for Stinginess

    • Analysis
    • October 2, 2017

    “I would love to increase the aid budget,” admitted Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Liberal Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s Minister of International Development, speaking at a recent conference organized by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation. But, she argued, …

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  • Harper Lite? The Trudeau Government on Foreign Aid

    Harper Lite? The Trudeau Government on Foreign Aid

    • Analysis
    • April 2, 2017

    Shifting from petty and mean to sunny ways, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has done a remarkable job of changing the tone of Canada’s international engagement. When it comes to foreign aid, however, the rhetoric has not been matched by action. …

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  • Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?

    Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?

    • Analysis
    • December 6, 2016

    In the early 2000s, Western donors finally recognized that they were partly to blame for foreign aid’s often disappointing results. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, adopted in 2005, was the result of that soul-searching.

    The Declaration was based …

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  • Policy Coherence for Development: Putting it into Practice

    Policy Coherence for Development: Putting it into Practice

    • Analysis
    • June 24, 2016

    Providing foreign aid is only one among many things that countries like Canada can do to promote international development. Official development assistance (ODA) on its own is not sufficient to help developing countries radically improve the lot of their poor …

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  • Budget 2016: Postponing Decisions on Canada’s Foreign Aid

    Budget 2016: Postponing Decisions on Canada’s Foreign Aid

    • Analysis
    • March 24, 2016

    In its first five months in office, the Liberal government has captured the world’s attention, never losing an opportunity to proclaim that “Canada is back.” In a blog a few months ago, the McLeod Group lamented the new government’s lack …

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  • Migration as a Threat to Foreign Aid?

    Migration as a Threat to Foreign Aid?

    • Analysis
    • March 16, 2016

    The current migration crisis poses a threat to foreign aid. By that, I certainly do not mean that the refugees and asylum seekers themselves are dangerous, but rather how Western governments respond to the crisis is already having a negative …

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  • A Backwards Decade on Foreign Aid

    A Backwards Decade on Foreign Aid

    • Analysis
    • October 15, 2015

    A decade of Conservative rule has had a profound impact on Canadian foreign aid — and mostly for the worst.

    With respect to aid level, we are back where we started. The Harper government initially embraced the Liberals’ goal of

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  • 15 Proposals for Canadian Foreign Aid

    • Analysis
    • January 11, 2015

    The French version of this essay was published on the Huffington Post Québec blog Un seul monde on January 8, 2015.

    When the Harper government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department …

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  • Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit: What’s Still Missing?

    • Analysis
    • June 11, 2014

    By Rieky Stuart and Stephen Brown

    Published on the McLeod Group Blog, June 10, 2014

    The Canadian government’s recent Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Summit in Toronto has not lacked for cheerleaders, especially NGOs receiving funding under the …

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  • CIDA’s Underspending: The Minister’s Explanations Don’t Add Up

    • Analysis
    • April 28, 2014

    While global foreign aid reached an all-time high in 2013, the Canadian government’s contributions fell by over 11%. Among the 28 industrialized countries belonging to the Development Assistance Committee, only debt-ridden Portugal cut aid more drastically than Canada. Not …

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  • When Policy Coherence is a Bad Thing

    • Analysis
    • February 3, 2014

    In July 2013, when the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), it did so mainly in the name of policy coherence. The …

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  • Killing CIDA: The Wrong Solution to Real Problems

    • Analysis
    • March 25, 2013

    Many supporters of DFAIT’s recently announced takeover of CIDA are invoking spurious arguments. More fundamentally, most commentators are missing the crucial point that this new arrangement will do little or nothing to fix the actual problems with Canadian foreign aid. …

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  • Foreign Aid: More of the Same?

    • Analysis
    • September 21, 2012

    Published in Embassy Magazine, September 19, 2012

    Canada’s contributions to reducing global poverty are rarely a priority topic for debate in the House of Commons. Foreign aid is an important tool for supporting international development, but it will likely …

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  • Bev Oda’s Real Legacy at CIDA

    • Analysis
    • July 10, 2012

    Media commentary has been remarkably lenient regarding Bev Oda’s record at the end of her five-year stint as Canada’s Minister of International Cooperation. Coverage has by and large ignored how, under her watch, the government systematically undermined both the fundamental …

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  • Transitional Justice As Subterfuge

    • Analysis
    • May 10, 2012

    Transitional justice is trendy. After a civil war or political transition, the new government will often announce one or more of a variety of mechanisms for dealing with the past, such as a special tribunal or a truth commission.

    What …

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  • Putting the Corporate Back Into CSR: A Rejoinder to Natalie Brender

    • Analysis
    • January 20, 2012

    In a blog post yesterday, my colleague Natalie Brender rejected a recent Ottawa Citizen column’s condemnations of the use of CIDA funds to subsidize Canadian mining companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in mining-affected communities in developing countries.

    The crux …

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