Carney condemns Hamas. Ottawa keeps signing the cheques

On October 7, 2026, the Prime Minister’s Office published a statement written in the tone of mourning. Mark Carney recalled that three years earlier, at dawn, Hamas carried out “the worst attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust”: nearly 1,200 dead, hundreds wounded, more than 200 taken hostage. He named Canadian citizens killed that day. He said Canada “unequivocally condemns Hamas,” which “must play no role in the future governance of a demilitarised Palestinian state.”

On paper, it is clear. In practice, it is ridiculous. The massacre he is talking about took place on October 7, 2023, not 2024. And Hamas is not a footnote in Palestinian history. Since 2007 it has held Gaza: the de facto government, the police, the tunnels, the rockets, the Al-Qassam Brigades. Canada knows this. It listed Hamas as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code in 2002. Anita Anand said it again the day after Carney’s statement: a listed terrorist entity, which must disarm and play no role in any future Palestinian government.

Condemning an army after funding the territory it controls is not a policy. It is a pose.

The figures the statement leaves out

On September 22, 2026, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Carney announced another $100 million for Palestine: $80 million in humanitarian aid for Gaza and the West Bank, $20 million for “peace and stabilisation,” including funding for a program to train Palestinian Authority police. The Prime Minister’s Office itself says these sums sit on top of another $100 million envelope announced earlier in 2026, and that Canadian assistance since October 2023 now exceeds $600 million.

Six hundred million. Since the day of the massacre.

Ottawa swears the money goes through the UN, the Red Cross and NGOs, and that it has a no-contact policy with Hamas. That is the usual excuse. It collapses the moment you look at who actually runs Gaza.

Hamas taxes, skims and diverts. This is not barroom rumour. It is how a group that has turned aid into a lever of power operates. UNRWA, which Stephen Harper stopped funding in 2010 precisely because of its ties to terrorist groups, was refinanced by Justin Trudeau in 2016. After October 7, agency employees were identified for their role in the massacre or their affiliation with Hamas. In June 2026, Ottawa announced another $100 million just as UNRWA was ending the contracts of dozens of Gaza staff over those links. Hamas memos made public in the spring of 2026 also showed Canadian-funded organizations working with the group’s structures.

You can call that humanitarian aid. You can also call it what it is: Canadian public money sent into a territory whose armed force is a terrorist organization listed in Ottawa, two weeks before the prime minister pretends to discover it. Recognition, then the cheque, then the speech In September 2025, Canada recognized a Palestinian state, on conditions no one seriously checks. One of them was that the Palestinian Authority suspend its program of pensions paid to terrorists, the infamous “pay for slay,” which was active through years of Canadian funding. Recognize, fund, then condemn: that is the real order of federal operations.

Carney can write that Hamas must play no role. His government keeps sending tens of millions into the territory that same Hamas holds, and millions more to train the Palestinian Authority’s forces, whose record with terrorism is no secret. The statement of October 7, 2026 does not erase the release of September 22. It makes it obscene.

Quebecers did not vote for this. They did not ask for their taxes to underwrite a foreign policy decided in Ottawa, aligned with the UN, and indifferent to what Hamas does with aid once it crosses the border.

Aside: the only way out is called sovereignty

As long as Québec remains a province, it has no voice on these files. Foreign policy is federal. International aid is federal. The terrorist-entity list is federal. The $100 million cheque is federal. And Québec’s share of the tax that pays for it leaves with the rest, without the National Assembly having a say.

This is not a constitutional detail. It is the mechanism. Ottawa can, in the same month, recognize, fund and condemn. Québec gets the bill, and the blame.

We do not support terrorism. We do not want our tax money maintaining, directly or indirectly, a group that murders, takes hostages and finances itself on international aid. Nor do we want a federation that plays both sides: the tear on October 7, the transfer on September 22.

A sovereign Québec would have its own foreign policy, its own aid budget, and the right to say no. No to funding a territory held by a terrorist army. No to UNRWA. No to symbolic recognitions that cost Ottawa nothing and cost taxpayers everything. Sovereignty is not a campaign slogan. It is the only way to stop being complicit in a policy we did not choose.

Carney’s Canada can keep issuing statements. Québec does not have to sign them.

Vive le Québec libre.