Thank you. I'll be reiterating a little bit of what was just said.
Honourable members, I would like to begin to acknowledging that we are in Treaty No. 6 territory.
By now, you probably recognize the T-shirt I'm wearing. My name is Kyria Wood. I'm a member of the ONE Campaign.
I'm here on behalf of 132 million girls who did not go to school today. I'm here on behalf of 2.7 million infants who die every year at birth. I'm here on behalf of the adolescent girls who account for 74% of all new HIV infections.
I'm proud to live in Canada, but I know that our country can do more to help people around the world.
Your committee has already recommended that Canada establish a path to investing 0.7% of Canada's gross national income in official development assistance by 2030. I'm here today to call on the Government of Canada to act on this recommendation in budget 2019 by increasing Canada's spending on global development and humanitarian assistance over 10 years through predictable 15% annual increases to the international assistance envelope, starting in fiscal year 2019.