Anita Vandenbeld at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On May 2nd, 2023. See this statement in context.

May 2nd, 2023 / noon

Liberal

Anita Vandenbeld Liberal Ottawa West—Nepean, ON

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Thank you very much for being here, Minister.

I'd like to go back to some of the lines of questioning from earlier from some of the opposition members, with that claim that ODA has been cut.

In fact, in your answer, you explained that it has gone up, in fact, I believe by 49% since 2015, and then it was mentioned that when something happens—like Ukraine or COVID—that is an exceptional thing, a crisis in the world, there then is an exceptional off-cycle ask and that is funded.

Does this mean that in the future we would still be able to do these exceptional off-cycle asks if there are emergencies like those that continue? In essence, nothing has changed other than the fact that we keep on increasing ODA to 2030...?

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