Dubious domestic politics and the G8 meeting

Published March 24, 2010

Last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon was adamant that there would be no family planning initiatives in the government's maternal health proposal for the G8 summit in Huntsville in June.

Mr. Cannon, to the disbelief of experts around the world, asserted that there was no need to include contraceptives as they do not save lives. This despite the fact that during the last G8 meeting in L'Aquila,...