Business NewsWhy Canada's deeper linkage of foreign aid with trade outcomes is raising concernsPoint of foreign aidSome in Canada's aid sector say they're growing more and more concerned by how closely the Carney government is tying foreign aid to its efforts to boost domestic economic growth. Some governments deliver foreign aid by providing recipient countries with goods or services produced by companies in the donor countries themselves — so-called "tied aid." Economists generally accept that foreign aid creates economic spinoffs domestically, even if they disagree on how valuable they are. Prime Minister Mark Carney has cut foreign aid and demoted the role of overseeing it from a ministerial post to a state secretary. Former Liberal MP John McKay sponsored the 2008 law that sets out how Canada's foreign aid is spent.