Canada 7th in foreign aid spending, but a fifth goes to refugees inside the country

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OTTAWA — While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world's richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada's borders.

OTTAWA — While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world's richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada's borders.

The tabulation includes provincial and federal spending in this area, and it folds in Ukrainians who came to Canada on an emergency visa to wait out the war, but who are not technically refugees. Many have called for those costs to be reported separately for years, she said, despite the long-standing practice of combining them.

As for the portion that is spent abroad, significant funding goes toward responding to the conflict in Sudan and hunger in Haiti, and 21.4 per cent went to Ukraine, particularly in the form of loans. Still, it was the most Canada spent on foreign aid in proportion to its gross domestic product since 1995, Legault said.

 

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