CIDA becomes "part of the new mandate"

February 8, 2006

The article "Foreign Affairs, International Trade and CIDA ­ One Big Happy Family, Maybe", published in Embassy on February 8th, deals with the decision of the new government to reunite the departments of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The article is written by Brian Adeba.


"... the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will also become part of the new mandate. The decision to add CIDA to the reintegration is being lauded by proponents of reunifying international trade and development under one wing. 'I support the decision to bring CIDA more closely to the overall foreign affairs portfolio,' says Gordon Smith, a former deputy foreign affairs minister and currently director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia."

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