Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel have been honoured for their human rights struggles and their humanitarian achievements. This weekend Graca Machel called Canada “a deadbeat parent to the world's starving children”.
Will Canada do more than embrace these revered human rights champions? Will the government hear and heed the pleas of Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel and restore the funding for international development aid to a minimum of .75% of GNP?