The aid sector in Canada is preparing for the catastrophic suffering worldwide, and requires Utawa to help fill the gaps as Washington finishes the United States Agency for International Development.
Many Canadian projects are in a state of forgetfulness, as the world’s largest aid financier freezes for financing for multilateral programs, and it is not clear what will happen to millions of dollars that Ottawa sent to the United States Agency for International Programming Development.
The cooperation coalition in Canada says millions of people are suddenly cut off from life saving supplies.
“This is catastrophic, for thousands and millions of people around the world,” said Kate Higgins, the group’s president. “It forces Canada and the Canadians to think about the type of country that we want to be.”
US President Donald Trump commissioned billionaire ally Elon Musk to reduce the US budget. The exercise included a 90 -day freezing on most US foreign aid, pending a review aimed at ensuring spending with American interests. Thousands of employees were placed on a paid vacation, although the courts have declined.
Multiple news reports contradict the claims of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that most of the programs of this life -saving agency abroad are still working through concessions.
The Associated Press reported last Friday, such as $ 450 million in the United States’s food – sufficient to feed 36 million people – which were not paid and therefore not delivered. About 1.6 million people from the displaced due to the war in the Darfur Sudan are cut off from the money needed to operate the water pumps in the desert.
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Cooperation in Canada represents dozens of Canadian non -profit organizations working in international development and humanitarian assistance, many of whom run projects that explode from the regulations run by the United States Agency for International Development, or United Nations agencies that have significant American financing.
“Many of them will need to be closed,” Higgins said of Canadian programs.
This includes emergency medicine, basic education and hunger relief. It leaves organizations trying to redesign their programs and work with organizations from other countries to try to fill the gaps.
Higgins said that global affairs in Canada are in contact with the aid sector to help manage the turmoil, but things are already collapsing.
She said: “Critical partners, who are part of the implementation of these projects, closes their doors.”
In addition, data from Global Affairs Canada shows a total of $ 40 million in development projects currently listed by Ottawa, funding the US International Development Agency for Implementation. Projects included adapting climate change in water gatherings in Peru and a box that helps activists LGBTQ+ violence.
Global Affairs Canada has not provided the status of each project, including the amount of Canadian financing allocated to the American Agency for International Development has not yet spent.
“Global affairs in Canada are evaluating the situation after changes in US foreign aid,” wrote Luis’s spokesman Karl Presit Leshaji. “No other decisions have been taken at this time, and we will have more to say with the development of the situation.”
The United States Agency for International Development did not respond to an email request for comment.
The office of the Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussein, wrote in a statement that Ottawa was “very concerned” after decades of partnership with the United States Agency for International Development.
“The loss and resources of the US Agency for International Development represents a serious decline in decades of progress in combating inequality, hunger, pendulum, and authoritarianism,” said Olivia Patten spokeswoman.
“Global challenges require collective measures, and we will continue to play our role by falsifying new partnerships that support peace, security and prosperity for all.”
Last Friday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Milani Jolie said “” certainly “plans to discuss the US International Development Agency this week with Rubio, who is supervising the agency on a temporary basis.
The two are scheduled to meet at the G7 meeting abroad that Jolly will head in Germany, along with the Munich Security Conference.
“It is important” to use Canada this opportunity to “show leadership at this destination in world history.”
Jolie told Halifax’s Chamber of Commerce that the American withdrawal from external aid will give opponents only more influence in the developing world.
She said last Friday: “I have my own opinions about what the American administration is doing with American aid, but I will keep these opinions for myself, for clear reasons,” she said last Friday.
“When we create a vacuum, only China and Russia can benefit from it.”
Higgins said that she hopes that the Canadians will raise their reputation as a sympathetic country, “he realizes that what is happening in other countries has direct effects on our safety, security and prosperity.”
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