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Originally Posted by calculoso
We regularly heard Trudeau speak about gender equality and such non-economic topics. If Trudeau was still running, you’d have an excellent point.
Do you see these kind of idealistic programs anywhere in the current Liberal list of priorities?
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This is the wrong argument to make.
The question that needs to be looked at is what all got included in this 11 billion in foreign aid and why is it called “gender”
What the 11 billion number appears to come from is the spending done under FIAP - Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. Now that sounds like a big scary woke program but it’s really just foreign aid for womens and childrens health, wellness and reproductive care
https://www.international.gc.ca/worl....aspx?lang=eng
So instead of using the term “3rd world gender programs” we should say foreign aid. If you want to spend less on foreign aid we should have that discussion but complaining that the aid is targeting improving women’s lives in third world countries because improvement in women’s lives improves critical poverty outcomes seems like the wrong discussion to have.
So the question to Simmer should be How much money should Canada spend on foreign aid.