Bibeau to fight for more money in new ‘feminist’ foreign aid policy
OTTAWA — International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she will continue to fight hard around the cabinet table for increased foreign aid funding and that her new feminist focused strategy is a necessary step towards that.
“This is obvious — that we all want more money,” Bibeau said in an interview Friday. “Let’s celebrate this new policy and the next step is working on financing.”
Bibeau unveiled the Liberal government’s new feminist development policy, but it made no new spending commitments for foreign aid, despite numerous calls by international agencies to do so.
The new plan does reallocate $150 million of the existing aid budget to women’s organizations in 30 countries over the next five years.