Eventually

Apparently Bono is more influential than the entire House of Commons. Now Martin says Canada will eventually reach the .7% target for foreign aid.

"We will ultimately [go forward] on the 0.7 but we're not going to do it – and that's what Bono was just making reference to – until we can basically say to Canadians — here's how we're doing it and here's when we are going to do it and there are no caveats, no conditions."

So according to the PM we'll get there. But that's not a promise. And we're not bothering to figure out how. But we will. Eventually.

To think I thought he was looking for a label other than "Mr. Dithers".

I'm sure that's much more reassuring to potential recipients than the European timetable, contingent on stated policy changes, which Martin was decrying a couple of weeks ago.