On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week, Prime Minister Carney pledged an additional $100 million toward Palestinian assistance.
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Carney → pledge → assistance
This amount is in addition to the $600 million Canada has given to the Palestinians since 2023, mainly funnelled through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), some of whose staff have been accused of participating in the October 7 massacre.
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some → give → massacre
In his announcement at the UN, Carney made a point of stating that $20 million will be directed to “peace and security capacity building,” including the continued funding of an RCMP training program for Palestinian police.
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million → make → police
This is despite warnings that the Palestinian police are becoming more like a 70,000-strong military force that could eventually threaten Israel.
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that → become → Israel
That money would have been better spent responding to the synagogue attack in Belleville, Ont., by supporting our own police officers who are putting their lives on the line to protect Canadians.
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who → spend → Canadians
Canada’s foreign policy is built on dispensing our hard-earned money to have a seat at the table.
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policy → build → table
Carney tweeted a photo of himself from the UN sitting at the head of a meeting he “co-hosted” with French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Saudi representative Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, on how to facilitate a “two-state solution.”
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he → tweet → solution
Our government is pretending we are in the big leagues, when in fact we are not even on Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for the reconstruction of Gaza.
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we → pretend → Gaza
We are seeking legitimacy and international standing by giving Palestinians more of our hard-earned taxpayer money and trying to force a two-state-solution.
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We → seek → solution
This is despite a Sept. 15 Pew Research Centre study that found that 68 per cent of Palestinians and 56 per cent of Israelis “don’t think a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is possible.”
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solution → find → conflict
As taxpayers, we should be concerned about Ottawa wasting money on the Palestinians, who haven’t yet fulfilled their pledges to Canada for statehood.
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who → concern → statehood
We should be asking, “What about us?”
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We → ask → us
Our economy is fragile and we are in a trade dispute with America that is affecting countless jobs.
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that → affect → jobs
To make matters worse, 4.5 million Canadians — 11 per cent of the population — live under the poverty line, according to Statistics Canada figures from 2024.
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Canadians → make → 2024
In Nunavut, the poverty rate rises to 31.7 per cent of the population.
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rate → rise → population
As a country, we should not be taking responsibility for the Palestinians, who have squandered billions of dollars of aid money by building tunnels instead of skyscrapers.
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who → take → tunnels
In 2025, it was estimated that 65,083 people were experiencing homelessness in 75 Canadian communities.
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people → estimate → communities
Take a drive to any Canadian town or small city like London or Windsor, Ont., and you will be shocked by homeless people and drug addicts on the streets.
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you → take → streets
Homelessness has risen by some 59 per cent over the past five years and it’s estimated that some 119,574 people used an emergency shelter at some point in 2024.
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people → rise → 2024
Why are we not helping our own citizens while directing hundreds of millions to people who are enriching themselves?
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who → help → themselves
In 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office found that Hamas’s leadership controlled assets of more than US$500 million.
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leadership → find → million
Meanwhile, it is believed that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is worth US$2.6 billion while Hamas financier Musa Abu Marzook is worth US$2 billion to US$3 billion.
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Marzook → believe → ?
Additionally, a U.S. District Court document alleges that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his family may be worth more than US$100 million.
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Abbas → allege → ?
Whatever the amounts, it is widely suspected that Palestinian leaders have enriched themselves and their families.
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leaders → suspect → themselves
Meanwhile, Canadians are suffering.
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Canadians → suffer → ?
Our health infrastructure is crumbling and our poverty rates are skyrocketing.
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rates → crumble → ?
The bottom line is that Canadians deserve as much help and even more from our government as the Palestinians are receiving.
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Palestinians → deserve → government
The funds directed to the Palestinians will not make a difference due to corruption and failure by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
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funds → direct → Hamas
We should be redirecting our hard-earned tax dollars to help our own citizens in need, rather than satiating political egos in an attempt to get noticed on the world stage.
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We → redirect → stage
A stop at the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, on the way to the United Nations to give away our money, would have gone a long way in terms of taking care of your own people, Mr. Carney.
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stop → give → people
Avi Abraham Benlolo is the Chairman and CEO of The Abraham Global Peace Initiative, a made-in-Canada think-tank.
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