Do you support increasing our foreign aid to reach the United Nations target of 0.7% of Gross National Income within 10 years?


Gilles Duceppe ,
Bloc Québécois

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Stephen Harper,
Conservative Party

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Elizabeth May ,
Green Party

"...We will achieve the 0.7% of Canadian GDP by the year 2016. It's costed, it's doable and it's a disgrace that Canada has failed to reach a target originally set by former Prime Minister Lester Pearson "

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Stéphane Dion ,
Liberal Party

"Yes, I do support reaching 0.7%. But if I told you within ten years, I would not be being realistic.... "

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Jack Layton,
New Democratic Party

"Our party has always supported 0.7% of GDP as a foreign aid commitment... "

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On the Record

About 'On the Record' Why and how we asked these questions

Question 1 Support for the goals of Make Poverty History

Question 2 Giving 0.7% of national income in foreign aid

Question 3 A national plan to reduce poverty

Question 4 Poverty in First Nations communities

Question 5 Support for the Kelowna accord or similar plan to reduce First Nations poverty

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