OTTAWA - A spokesman for International Co-operation Minister Josee Verner says the Harper government is living up to aid commitments to Africa made by the Liberals.
Richard Walker commented in an e-mail after Liberal MP Belinda Stronach accused the Tories of failing to meet African aid commitments.
She told a media outlet that the former Liberal government's 2005 budget pledged to double African aid by 2010.
Stronach said the amount set aside by the Conservative government falls $700 million short of that.
Walker says numbers in the Liberal budget were amended by the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland to double the amount from 2003-04, set at $1.05 billion.
He says the Harper government is "honouring the commitment made at Gleneagles to double aid to Africa to $2.1 billion by 2008-09, from the revised 2003-04 base of $1.05 billion by former Prime Minister Paul Martin.''
