Certainly. As you all know, Canada has played an important role in Afghanistan to help girls attend school. There were practically no girls going to school under the Taliban government. Right now there are thousands of girls in school, but there are still millions who are not in school, because the schools don't exist. The teachers aren't there. There aren't sufficient female teachers. Canada should be providing significantly more funding to help train those teachers in Afghanistan and elsewhere, so that children have an opportunity to make a life. We could make the same case for health care, where Canada's aid has been extremely effective in helping to reduce maternal mortality. It could do so much more with an increase. If it's frozen, it limits it.
On October 19th, 2011. See this statement in context.