Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance

List of Ministers and Senior Officials

This page intentionally left blank Chronology of Key Events 1949 • First Canadian contribution to UN Expanded Program of Technical Assistance. 1950 • Canada joins Colombo Plan for Co­operative Economic Develop­ ment in South and Southeast Asia; India, Pakistan, and Ceylon become main recipients of bilateral aid under the Colombo Plan. • Technical Cooperation Service (TCS) set up in Department of Trade and Commerce. 1951 • International Economic and Technical Cooperation Division (IETCD) established in Department of Trade and Commerce, absorbing TCS; Nik Cavell appointed administrator of IETCD. 1958 • IETCD upgraded as Economic and Technical Assistance Branch (ETAB) within Department of Trade and Commerce, with Orville Ault as director. • West Indies Aid Program and Commonwealth Technical Assistance Program (for Commonwealth African countries) initiated. 1960 • Start of first UN Development Decade; industrial countries urged to transfer 1per cent of their combined national incomes to developing countries. • Canada joins Development Assistance Group of the Organisation for European Economic Co­operation, reconstituted as the Develop­ ment Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co­operation and Development (OECD) in 1961. • ETAB replaced by External Aid Office (EAO), under a director gen­ eral with the rank of deputy minister reporting to secretary of state for External Affairs. • Full bilateral aid programming extended to Commonwealth African countries under the Special Commonwealth Africa Aid Programme (SCAAP) • Canada subscribes to International Development Association (IDA), set up as a soft loan arm of the World Bank. 1961 • Modest technical assistance program started in francophone Africa; capital assistance extended in 1964. 1962 • Canada supports establishment of World Food Program. 1963 • Newly elected Liberal government under Lester Pearson announces major increase in Canada's aid effort, involving new soft loan program. xni ...