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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? Don’t Cut Foreign Aid to Meet Refugee Resettlement Costs

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? Don’t Cut Foreign Aid to Meet Refugee Resettlement Costs

McLeod Group Blog, Nov. 23, 2015

Amid the excitement of a new government and the encouraging news of meaningful Canadian action to help in the global effort to assist refugees from the Middle East find asylum, there is cause for concern. Where will the money come from?

Canada’s spending on foreign aid has been dropping for the last five years. Under the international rules for calculating this assistance, the money Canada spends on supporting refugees during their first year here is counted ...

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