- Pledged $3.5 billion to five-year initiative (2015-2020) aimed at reducing infant mortality and improving access to healthcare for mothers, newborns and young children internationally (1)
- Committed to several projects fostering humanitarian assistance in Ukraine, including two $200 million low-interest loans over the past two years (2, 3)
- Supports the steady increase of spending as well as efficacy and monitoring in humanitarian aid over time, within the overall framework of forwarding Canada’s own economic interests.
- Supports maintaining current freeze on foreign aid increases in service of reducing federal deficit (4, 5)
- Committed to foreign aid investments in Central and South American countries with an emphasis on natural resource extraction (i.e. mining initiatives) aimed at supporting economic development abroad as well as advancing Canadian business interests (6, 7)
- Committed to multiple international projects targeting child marriage, early marriage and forced marriage, and violence against children (8, 9, 10, 11)
- Seeks to maintain Canada’s ban on abortion funding in foreign aid policy, focusing instead on newborn and maternal health (18)
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- Promises to reverse the ban on abortion funding in foreign aid policy, increase funding for women’s rights organizations, and include access to abortion services in Canada’s mandate on reproductive and sexual health worldwide (18, 19, 20)
- Seeks to reverse ODA (Official Development Assistance) budget cuts, and prioritize increase of ODA over the course of years to meet the UN global target of 0.7 percent of GDP (18, 19, 20)
- Promises to focus on the core values of poverty reduction and human rights advocacy in Canada’s international development policy (19, 20)
- Committed to shifting Canada’s humanitarian goals back to a focus on aid for sub-Saharan Africa, citing the importance of targeting ODA to the poorest and least-developed countries where assistance is most needed; supports multiple international health initiatives aimed at combating Ebola virus, HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria in developing countries (20)
- Pledges to fund global assistance by working to eliminate tax havens, whose lost tax revenue could make up as much as twice the amount needed to end extreme poverty (20)
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- Expressed support for present Canadian development priorities but called for a sharp increase in foreign aid spending (12, 13)
- Supports shifting Canada’s foremost humanitarian goals back to a focus on aid for Africa (14)
- Expressed support for Canada’s involvement in Ukrainian reform and independence (15, 16)
- Promised new rules for charities that would create more nonpartisan openness for advocacy work (17)
- Oppose Canada’s ban on abortion funding in foreign aid policy (18)
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- Promises to increase ODA (Official Development Assistance) to meet the UN global target of 0.7 percent of GDP, with the ultimate goal of further increasing ODA to 1% of Canada’s GDP (21, 23)
- Pledges to institute an International Financial Transaction Tax of 0.05% on all speculative transactions, and to direct at least half of the revenues from this tax to meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for foreign aid (22)
- Seeks to shift development aid and international investment toward projects that focus on fostering alternative energy, sustainable agriculture, and nature conservation in developing countries (24)
- Committed to shifting Canada’s humanitarian goals back to a focus on African aid and targeting “the poorest of the poor” in development assistance (25)
- Promises to undo funding cuts made to development organizations Planned Parenthood, MATCH, CCIC, and KAIROS and opposes the ban on abortion funding in foreign aid policy (26)
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