Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today. My name is Hailey Froese, and I am here today representing Engineers Without Borders Canada. EWB is an NGO that invests in people and ventures to create a thriving and sustainable world and address the root causes of poverty and inequality.

Finance committee  Cool. Got it. In budget 2017, I'd like to ask that Canada commit to predictable increases of the international assistance envelope of 10% annually to the end of the 42nd Parliament, with a publicly available timeline to double the envelope by 2023 to ensure that Canada can deliver on implementation of the 2030 sustainable development agenda.