OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says budget cuts at Global Affairs Canada won’t affect the ability of Canadians in trouble abroad to get help from embassies.

“I’m confident that these reductions will have no impact on the services on which Canadians rely while abroad,” Anand testified Thursday to the House foreign affairs committee.

This month’s budget included a $561 million cut to the department’s budget next year, which increases to a $1.1 billion cut two years later. It said GAC would be “revamping emergency preparedness and modernizing consular services” to cut costs.

Earlier this year, bureaucrats warned Anand that deteriorating stability worldwide and an increase in travel are causing a massive expansion in the work required to protect Canadians abroad, citing costl

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