We can view the federal government’s decision in the 2013 budget to fold the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) into the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAIT) from two different angles. Either this is about rearranging the chairs on the Titanic, gaining a few administrative efficiencies, but ultimately not changing our country’s approach to global development. Or this is about taking a fundamentally new approach, deeply integrating all of Canada’s foreign policy tools to create a single, coherent whole that drives sustainable and inclusive economic development, worldwide. -The Ottwawa Citizen