Global Affairs Canada

The department periodically conducts evaluations of Global Affairs Canada priorities, programs and projects. Evaluation serves as a practical management tool for reviewing performance of programs and activities. The information gathered through an evaluation helps improve the design as well as...

The department periodically conducts evaluations of Global Affairs Canada priorities, programs and projects. Evaluation serves as a practical management tool for reviewing performance of programs and activities. The information gathered through an evaluation helps improve the design as well as...

Minister of Foreign Affairs appearance before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) on Canada’s diplomatic capacity on February 7, 2024.

Volume 1 of the Report to Parliament on the Government of Canada’s International Assistance 2020-2021 provides information required pursuant to the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act, and presents a whole-of-government overview of Canada’s federal international assistance spending...

Deputy Minister of International Development appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (AEFA) on Canada’s engagements and interests in Africa on February 8, 2024.

Since 2003, the World Bank publishes the Ease of Doing Business (EDB) Index aimed at measuring the regulatory efficiency and institutional quality of key processes that affect the business environment in a given economy. While highly influential, particularly in the developing world, the EDB has...

Annual Report to Parliament pursuant to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, S.C. 1998, c. 34 - Annual Report to Parliament on the Implementation of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and the Enforcement of the...

2019: This report provides a comprehensive summary of the main developments in Canada’s commercial activities during the previous year. It describes the events that took place in the global economy and trade in 2018, the main developments in Canada’s economy and those of its most important...

On September 21, 2017, the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada’s most ambitious trade agreement since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), provisionally entered into force. The 27 European Union members and the United Kingdom (referred as...

This study focuses on the diversity of merchandise exports by product. Export diversity by product is important to hedge against price shocks and sector-specific drops in demand. Product diversity is also important for ensuring that a positive shock in demand or price for a given product does not...

This is the annual summary of steel import data for 2020.

Annual Report to Parliament pursuant to subsection 72(2) of the Privacy Act

Annual Report to Parliament pursuant to subsection 94(2) of the Access to Information Act

Online news can easily deceive even the most vigilant individuals. Take Deepa, for example: She received a notification on her phone announcing a week-long holiday declared by the government due to an abnormal cold wave. Quickly, she shared the news with her colleagues and friends, only to...

The containment measures enacted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the factor that left heavy negative impacts on Canadian exports and other aspects of the Canadian economy in 2020. An interesting feature of the “COVID-19 downturn” is the exceptionally large month to month variation in...

This internal audit is about the procurement of consulting services by Global Affairs Canada in the last five fiscal years. The objective of the audit was to determine whether the procurement of consulting services at Global Affairs Canada complies with applicable authorities and is conducted in...

In accordance with the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act (ODAAA or the Act), the Minister of International Development is required to issue the Statistical Report on International Assistance, published one year after the end of each fiscal year. This report presents an annual...

The Forward Regulatory Plan lists certain regulatory initiatives GAC will be working on over the next 2-year period. This TBS-mandated initiative promotes awareness and predictability for stakeholders (e.g. Canadian businesses).

Deputy Minister of International Development appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on recent developments on the humanitarian situation in Gaza – issue notes on November 22, 2023.

This internal audit is about the management practices of the mission in Dakar (Senegal) related to governance, procurement, management of assets, human resources, and duty of care. The objective of the audit was to determine whether sound management practices and effective controls were in place...