The federal government has said it would streamline its distribution of all foreign aid grants, which made up more than half of Ottawa’s spending on overseas development assistance in 2021. David Akin explains what humanitarian groups are worried what ‘streamlining’ could be code for, and their pleas to increase Canada’s foreign aid spending.
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