This article/opinion could have been better written.  Instead, there is the highly inaccurate statement of "only 0.3 per cent of Canada’s international assistance (or $1.7-million) in 2013 actually reached women".   The para is talking about funding to women's organizations, not women.  It also relies on how projects are coded, which is problematic.

The purported culture shift is a bit insulting to all the people at Global Affairs who have worked on gender/women's issues over the years.  I don't think you could find a single person there who sees women as passive beneficiaries and not powerful partners for change.  But that doesn't mean they all support having this new policy rammed down their throats.  By the government's own statistics, already 70% of Canadian bilateral aid is coded as "gender significant" or "gender principle" - (http://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/campaign-campagne/iap-pai/index.aspx?lang=eng&utm_campaign=iap-pai-2017&utm_source=GAC&utm_medium=slideshow-en).