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Activist Geldof criticizes Canadian PM Trudeau's aid stance

Published 2016-05-11, 02:55 p/m
© Reuters. Activist Geldof criticizes Canadian PM Trudeau's aid stance

By Allison Lampert
MONTREAL, May 11 (Reuters) - Anti-poverty activist Bob
Geldof on Wednesday criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau for reportedly saying that Canada would not meet a
United Nations goal on foreign aid spending this year or next.
The Toronto Star reported on Tuesday that Trudeau said his
recently elected Liberal government will not meet the
international goal to spend 0.7 percent of gross domestic
product on foreign aid, adding it was "too ambitious for this
year and probably for next year as well."
Geldof questioned why Canada could not meet the target when
Britain and other western countries had done so.
"It seems very unambitious for a man as ambitious as
Trudeau," Geldof told reporters in Montreal after speaking at a
financial conference.
Trudeau, 44, the left-leaning Liberal Party leader and son
of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, took power last
November. He has basked in international media attention since
coming to power and maintained high approval ratings at home.
Geldof, a former singer for the Boomtown Rats, helped
organize the 1985 Live Aid concert, which reached an estimated
1.5 billion people and did much to raise the profile of those
suffering from poverty, starvation and disease in Ethiopia in
the mid-1980s.
Geldof now has a private equity fund focused on Africa.

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