Mr. Speaker, CIDA funding for the Canadian Council for International Cooperation is in jeopardy. Just like the cuts to KAIROS and the cuts to so many other NGOs, these are politically motivated and punitive. The cuts will mean that the CCIC's 90 member organizations are going to lose the voice that speaks for them all.
It is a powerful message to the NGO community: “Watch what you say or you are going to lose your funding”.
Is that not what this is all about, muzzling the organizations that speak for the world's poor?