“Security should certainly be part of the foreign aid discussion: notably, how our security is affected by insecurity and poverty elsewhere.”
Ottawa-based development practitioner and writer, Ian Smillie, has written an opinion piece for the Ottawa Citizen debunking the idea that cutting foreign aid and using the funds to beef up Canada’s military will make us safer. He also highlights how little of Canada’s current foreign aid dollars are actually going towards eliminating global poverty.
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