After months of countless advocacy including a successful parliamentary reception, high-level parliamentary meetings and over 5000 of you taking action, the Government of Canada didn’t deliver the outcome we had hoped for on Budget Day. Canada dealt a major blow to development and global health with a 15% cut to international aid in Budget 2023. Without new spending announced, aid as a share of our national income could go down to 0.25%-0.27%, compared to 0.32% in 2021. This would be...
Last week G7 leaders gathered at their yearly Summit, took some photos and made promises that the world has (for the most part) already heard from them.    While the world’s most powerful leaders dined out on curated vegan menus at the G7 meetings, hundreds of millions of people plunged further into one of the worst food crises that the world has ever seen.    Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, nearly 800 million people around the world were facing or were...
This weekend the world’s most powerful global leaders will convene in Germany for yet another meeting of the G7, facing a convergence of crises that have only worsened over the last year and are putting hundreds of millions of lives at risk.  And last Friday, ONE Canada was in front of Parliament Hill to tell Prime Minister Trudeau that we want him to go to the G7 Summit with a real plan to tackle these converging crises. Getting out of...
The coincidence of Budget 2022 falling on World Health Day is not lost on us. The link between global health, development, and our prosperity has never been clearer. Two and half years into this global pandemic we have all seen fractured health systems, halted national economies, and disrupted global supply chains, not to mention the over 6 million people and counting who lost their lives. Global health security requires sufficient and predictable investment from countries like Canada. World Health Day...
Why Canada should channel its SDRs to developing countries Imagine you and your sister are both going through the same economic crisis, but with very different means. You both lost your jobs, but you already paid off your mortgage and have savings in the bank. Your sister is a single mom with three kids and unpaid student debt. The bank is willing to give you a loan, but not your sister because she is less wealthy and her finances are...
After 36 days of campaigning and 16 million votes, the Government of Canada looks essentially identical to the previous one. Now, it is time to get back to work. The world is still facing a significant crisis: the global pandemic. Despite parliament not changing from when it was dissolved a little over a month ago, we lost five weeks of government action in one critical area: putting an end to the global Covid-19 pandemic. But there is a key moment tomorrow,...
We have more than enough vaccines, others don’t. Africa is facing a COVID-19 crisis, cases are surging and the continent is heading towards a global catastrophe. Over the last month deaths from COVID in Africa have increased 80%. Only roughly 3% of Africans have received the first shot, and the continent is not on track to vaccinate 10% of its population by the end of the year. The WHO’s Bruce Aylward said this should be “a scar on all of...
"One of the saving graces in this budget, is the fact that Canada increased our support to the ACT-Accelerator, which helps get Covid tests, treatments, supplies, and more to people in the most need. This should be celebrated, but the Government must address the combined crisis of COVID, Ukraine, and the economic aftershocks rippling through African and other developing countries. We need to increase investments to tackle all these crises at the same time, rather than just focusing on...