The Fight Over and Future of Canadian Aid to Africa

The Tories say they have fulfilled the promise to double aid to the continent, a statement Paul Martin disputes.

Published April 1, 2009

When then-finance minister Ralph Goodale presented the federal government's budget to much fanfare on Feb. 23, 2005, prime minister Paul Martin's government was in the midst of a major foreign policy exercise.

The prime minister had ordered a rethink of where the country wanted to go on the international stage, including militarily, diplomatically and in aid terms.

That review, however, had hit snags and, according to...

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