{"id":11849,"date":"2025-04-30T09:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:30:11","slug":"abetterworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/abetterworld\/","title":{"rendered":"April CTA: #ABetterWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a politically turbulent start to this year, the 2025 Canadian federal election kicked off on March 23rd at a critical time for our country and our world. The US President Donald Trump has used his first few months in office to sow chaos, pick fights with allies, and threaten our country with annexation. On top of this, the US administration has dismantled USAID, destroying an agency which provided over 42% of all global health funding, jeopardizing decades of progress toward ending extreme poverty and eradicating our world\u2019s deadliest diseases. And now other countries are following suit by cutting their international assistance budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This election is a crucial opportunity for us to tell candidates in our communities that we don\u2019t want Canada to turn its back to the world<\/strong>. For the first time in over 40 years, a Canadian election is primarily focused on issues beyond our borders. As advocates, we need to seize this moment. Candidates and parties across the country are working hard to earn your support. They want to hear from you, about your priorities and concerns. We must remind them that regular people like us care about building a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the leadership of countries like Canada, our world is healthier and more prosperous than it was only 20 years ago. Canada has a long tradition of working alongside global partners to to support and champion the health and wellbeing of the most marginalized. For decades, Canada has contributed to advancing health equity, education, and efforts to fight our world\u2019s deadliest infectious diseases, like tuberculosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ask:<\/strong> We call on Canada's next government to have a strong role in tackling the most pressing global challenges by showing up and supporting the health, wellbeing, and dignity of people around the world. A better world starts with Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\t
<\/div>\n\t\t\t
\n

Canada\u2019s global legacy <\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>

In 2010, then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper created the Muskoka Initiative for maternal and child health<\/a>. Canada’s contribution of $1.1 billion was leveraged to a total global investment of $40 billion, saving at least 1.2 million children’s lives.  <\/p>\n

In 2018, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leveraged Canada’s G7 Presidency to create the Charlevoix Education Initiative<\/a>, which supported the education of women and girls living in crisis. Backed by a Canadian investment of $400 million, Charlevoix leveraged $3.8 billion from G7 partners. The Canadian investment alone reached over 4 million women and girls living in fragile contexts, providing access to safe and quality education.\u202f <\/p>\n

Every Canadian government since 2002 has built and grown Canada’s commitment to ending our world’s deadliest diseases through investments in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria<\/a>, helping to save over 65 million lives and cut the combined death rate from AIDS, TB and malaria by 61%. <\/p>\n

For decades, Canada has been a leader in fighting global malnutrition, remaining the largest donor to vitamin A supplementation, which has helped save the lives of over 7 million children<\/a>. In addition, nutrition comprised close to a third of the health spending in Canada’s 2010 Muskoka Initiative.  <\/p>\n

Since 2002, Canada has invested more than $1.6 billion in Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance<\/a>, helping immunize 1 billion children and saving 17 million lives. Canada’s investments have helped to bolster vaccination systems in more than 60 countries and have generated a 54:1 return<\/a> in economic benefits in implementing countries. Canada recommitted to global vaccination and the eradication of HPV through an investment of $675 million<\/a> just last month.  <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

This multiparty consensus \u2013 which centres the needs of people, and supports human rights, democracy, education, and global health \u2013 has been critical in shaping Canada\u2019s role in the world. Importantly, this support has been maintained and grown across successive governments, showing that supporting the health, wellbeing, and dignity of people around the world is a fundamental Canadian value.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

international assistance works<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We know that international assistance works. It not only saves millions of lives but also opens a world of potential and growth. Canada\u2019s global investments build allies and trade partners around the world by strengthening communities, growing economies, and saving lives. It helps prevent deadly disease outbreaks before they reach our shores, build sustainable markets and communities, and help defuse crises like armed conflicts before they begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have played a key role in countless critical areas. Our global investments have helped to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n