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Canada is being accused of retreating from its role as an international development leader after the Liberal government’s budget announced it will cut $2.7 billion in foreign aid over the next four years.
Those cuts, the budget said, would show up in reductions to Canada’s “development funding to global health programming” and in its transfers to “international financial institutions,” but no specific details were given.
“Global health funding really is somewhere that Canada does have a good recent record in and it's really unfortunate that it's stepping back after seeing what the impact of other peer countries stepping back is doing,” Doctors Without Borders’ Adam Houston told CBC News.
“Staying the course would be leadership at this point,” he said.
Canada’s cuts come after the Trump administration folded USAID, its international aid agency,
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