Family planning and access to reproductive health services and rights are needed to round out the initiative, a departmental evaluation says.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured in February, told a Senate committee last week her government plans to cover 'a full range of services,' including 'sex education for teens, family planning, the fight against sexual diseases, safe deliveries, and safe abortion when it's appropriate.' The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
An internal departmental evaluation of the Harper government’s signature foreign-aid initiative appears to bolster the Liberal party’s decision to put more emphasis on family planning, including abortion services.
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While gaining a change in immigration status can be ‘transformational,’ the new policy does not go far enough as it excludes those not proficient in English or French, says one expert.
There are a 'whole series of very complicated questions that nobody is talking about,' says border expert Edward Alden on the lack of planning for an eventual border reopening.
New prescribed policies, procedures forced people to think about how they were acting, creating a 'profound' change in terms of staff understanding how they need to relate in the workplace, says the PMO's Marci Surkes.
'I think [the Canadian government] needs to demonstrate a stronger case that there is a real security problem and it has never been able to do so,' says former diplomat Daniel Livermore.
Ontario ISG Senator Rosemary Moodie says the new group shows the ‘significant investment’ the Senate is putting into pursuing ‘meaningful improvement.’
'It’s like you walk around and you have a target on your back … there is something a bit, not sadistic, but satisfying in getting rid of the last MP standing,' says McGill Prof. Daniel Béland.
Requiring free, prior, and informed consent is not a veto, says a former judge, it’s about how the government ‘operationalizes’ its approach to projects early on.
It was more important for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to distinguish his offer from the Liberal government, say politicos, with both parties presenting resolutions that offered similar progressive policy solutions.