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TRUDEAU SHOCK SENSATION: “AID TARGETS TOO AMBITIOUS”

TRUDEAU SHOCK SENSATION: “AID TARGETS TOO AMBITIOUS”

McLeod Group Blog, May 12, 2016

According to a recent article in the Toronto Star, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has “acknowledged Ottawa has no intention of meeting the international goal to spend .70 per cent of gross domestic product on foreign aid anytime soon.” The article goes on to say that he is “scaling back Canada’s support of a key UN goal to boost international aid spending, calling it ‘too ambitious.’”

In fact what Trudeau said—a bit deeper into the article—was, ...

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