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Should the government increase or decrease foreign aid spending?

Should Canada increase or decrease foreign aid spending?

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49%
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Increase, but only for countries that have no human rights violations
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Decrease, until we drastically reduce our national budget deficit
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Decrease, and deny aid to countries that harbor or promote terrorism
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Decrease, and we should not give foreign aid to any countries

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 @9D6Q6NPfrom Quebec  answered…2yrs2Y

Only send aid during natural disasters

 @9VWWVJ4from British Columbia  answered…6mos6MO

Send supplies rather than funds and give to the organizations that help the community rather than the govt. Help more innocent victims.

 @B48H5F7from Ontario  answered…5 days5D

Same spending but only to countries with no human rights violations. If we have to shuffle, then do that

 @B45T7J2from Ontario  answered…1wk1W

It highly depends on the situation and purpose. It should be decided by people or the members of parliament

 @B45SGLPfrom Quebec  answered…1wk1W

Our foreign aid spending should be tied to our current economic outlook and should be linked to our production and growth.

 @B43SXTX from Alberta  answered…2wks2W

Target aid more effectively to ensure funds go where they create real impact.

Encourage partnerships with Canadian businesses so aid leads to mutual economic benefits.

Increase oversight to reduce waste and corruption.

Shift focus toward sustainable development rather than just short-term relief.

 @B36LMM7from Ontario  answered…1mo1MO

Add foreign aid to individual people instead of the country and to poor countries example(African countries)

 @B35MPHBfrom Manitoba  answered…1mo1MO

Completely remove Aid to Israel until at least such a time as they stop the aggression on Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and go back to 1967 borders and recognize the country of Palestine.

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The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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