Keith Martin at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On December 13th, 2006. See this statement in context.

December 13th, 2006 / 4:20 p.m.

Liberal

Keith Martin Liberal Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, BC

I will just say that this is actually saying, Mr. Menzies, that nothing restricts or limits the activities of the IDRC, but nothing precludes the government from including the funds that they give to the IDRC as being ODA-able.

So if you read it very carefully, the funds that go to the IDRC can clearly be construed as being ODA-able by a government. Nothing in that statement precludes that.

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