'Fenced-off' funding hurting DFAIT: Experts

Published September 8, 2010

Officials have defended recent funding changes to Canada's diplomatic network abroad, saying resource levels have been increased this year amid efforts to identify "efficiencies" and meet government priorities.

However, former diplomats say as more and more of the Foreign Affairs department's budget gets tied up in those priorities, the overall core operating budget—and hence Canada's diplomacy...