Prime Minister Mark Carney says he wouldn’t label his government’s approach to international relations as a “feminist foreign policy,” a term embraced by the former Trudeau government.
“We have that aspect to our foreign policy, but I wouldn’t describe our foreign policy as feminist foreign policy,” Carney told reporters at a Nov. 23 press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he attended the 2025 G20 leaders’ summit.
Carney’s comments represent a shift from former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, which had a focus on promoting gender equality and access to abortion. Trudeau’s policy, introduced in 2017, required 95 percent of Canada’s bilateral aid investments to take gender equality into account in funding decisions….