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MONTREAL — A Quebec-based aid group offering controversial homeopathic therapies in Honduras will no longer receive funding from the federal government after the 2019-20 fiscal year, Global Affairs Canada said Wednesday.

Ottawa’s support of Terre Sans Frontieres had been criticized by doctors and academics claiming homeopathic therapies are no better than placebos for treating patients. Terre Sans Frontieres, whose head office is located just south of Montreal, has received about $200,000 of federal funding for homeopathy programs in Honduras since 2015.

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Louis Belanger, spokesman for International Development Minister Maryam Monsef, said the five-year funding package was signed by the previous Conservative government. He said in an email that homeopathy “doesn’t fall under the priorities” of the Liberals’ international assistance policy, introduced in 2017.

“I am unclear why the Conservatives would (sign) off on this five-year program back in 2015 …. We will not be funding these types of initiatives any longer,” Belanger said.