PM Announces Canada Will Contribute $300M To Global COVID-19 Fight

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that Canada will contribute $300 million towards the international effort to battle COVID-19.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference at Big Rig Brewery amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Friday. The ACT Accelerator supports organizations, health professionals and businesses in their efforts to develop a vaccine, as well as drug therapies and diagnostic tools to battle the pandemic.

Canadian aid agencies and advocacy groups say the contribution is only a fraction of what is eventually needed to fight the pandemic. It will also to be a challenge to ensure that when a vaccine is developed, it reaches poor countries that don’t have the ability to pay for it. Anderson said whatever Trudeau announces Saturday should only be seen as a “deposit” on future spending. Her group and two anti-poverty organizations — the One Campaign and Results Canada — say Canada should be devoting one per cent of its overall COVID-19 spending programs to international assistance.They say that would require a boost of at least $1.5 billion to Canada’s foreign-aid budget, which stands at about $5 billion.

Nicolas Moyer, the executive director of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, said his organization will be making a formal submission over the summer to the government to increase aid spending in the next federal budget. The CCIC, an umbrella group for aid organizations, has not yet formulated how much that increase should be, but Moyer agreed that the one-per-cent target suggested by the two advocacy groups was appropriate.

Yup JustinTrudeau has it tough 😡🇨🇦

Following the UN’s suggestion to do more. Just you wait Canada until your borders open again. cdnpoli

althiaraj What percentage will go to administrative costs?

Why are disabled Canadians still being ignored? JustinTrudeau offered us a meagre $600, maybe bumping PWD up = CERB (what he says every Canadian needs) for ONE month. Even theJagmeetSingh has moved on! JILLSLASTWORD

TrudeauworstPMever should take that same 300M and provide clean drinking water to the reserves he's responsible for, not the corrupt countries and warlords he adores.

After 5 years he still believes that budgets balance themselves. Reduced credit ratings. Millions out of work. Massive spending. And selfish progressives cheer as their children will have to pay of the interest on their debt.

i want a complete breakdown of where and why that money will go

Advocates are not recognizing we have a massive deficit that their children’s children will be paying.

Advocates say one thing and then Trudeau haters will object to one cent being spent on international aid. He can't please everybody no matter what he does!

Advocates aren't trying to run the country through a pandemic.

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