The millennium development goals primarily apply to how developing countries are doing, although I think Canada is also ranked. Canada ranks highly. It has met, for the most part, all of the millennium development goals, unless you disaggregate things and look at aboriginal communities, for example, where I think we fall far behind. It's more a question of how Canada is doing as a donor in terms of its aid quality and aid commitments. Compared with the Netherlands, in terms of providing funding, we're currently around 16th out of 22 countries. A number of Scandinavian countries—I think five countries—have already reached the UN target of 0.7%, with two or three others, like the United Kingdom and Australia, on track.
On September 29th, 2011. See this statement in context.