Letter of the Day: Foreign aid should increase, not be cut

So Andrew Scheer, if elected, would cut Canada’s International Assistance (foreign aid) by 25 per cent. He intends to pay for tax cuts and credits at home by denying countries that he thinks don’t deserve our help. Already, the amount that he claims is going to such countries has been proven false, and the method by which the Conservatives arrived at the cut-off figure has been called bizarre and arbitrary. Read More