CIDA and the Money Doublers

Published May 19, 2010

Much ink has been spilled over Canada's so-called G8 initiative on maternal and child health for the developing world. Many have urged the government forward on this laudable mission, while others—demonized as spiteful people with a narrow domestic agenda—have railed against the government's exclusion of funding for abortion.

The facts behind the debate are more complicated than this.

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