While Canadians line up at food banks, Carney finds $100 million “for Palestine”

In New York, on the sidelines of the UN, the Prime Minister found 100 million Canadian dollars “for Palestine.” Eighty million in humanitarian aid. Twenty million for “peace and security,” including training Palestinian police officers.

Mark Carney’s speech at the UN announcing $100 million in aid to Palestine

We are told it is humanitarian. We are told that “not a penny will go to Hamas, but Palestine is ruled by Hamas.” We are told it is to “preserve the two-state solution.”

I see something else.

This is not an isolated gesture. Since October 7, 2023, Ottawa has already committed more than $600 million for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. In June 2026, Anita Anand announced another $100 million. In 2024–2025 alone, “Palestine” ranked among the very top recipients of Canadian international assistance, around $167 million that year.

And Ukraine? There we are no longer talking hundreds of millions. The government itself speaks of more than $25.5 billion in support since February 2022, including more than $8.5 billion in military aid. For 2024–2025 alone, Ukraine was the leading recipient of Canadian international assistance: more than $3.1 billion that year. Loans, grants, weapons. A second foreign policy, financed by the first.

Two theatres of war. Two bills. One taxpayer.

Meanwhile, at home: nearly 2.2 million visits to food banks in a single month — March 2025 — double the 2019 figure. One in four Canadians lives in a household facing food insecurity. Four in ten households spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Food and rent have risen by about 25 to 30% since 2021. In Quebec, the food insecurity rate is somewhat lower than elsewhere, around 18%. That is no consolation. It is the portrait of a people tightening their belts while their capital writes cheques.

Rent eats what is left. The lines grow longer. So do the waiting lists.

The reply will be: “The money is not going to Hamas.” Formally, that is true: the press releases speak of the UN, the Red Cross, NGOs, the Palestinian Authority. Ottawa has repeated since 2023 that “no money will end up in the hands of Hamas.”

I am not obliged to buy the press release.

Hamas is a listed terrorist organization in Canada. It is an Islamist militia. It is the one that massacred on October 7. It is the one that governed Gaza. When hundreds of millions are sent into a territory that this organization controls, taxes, loots and instrumentalizes, claiming the file stops at the letterhead “Red Cross” is a pirouette. I do not have to prove every diversion to say this: I do not want my taxes to serve, near or far, to finance an Islamist ecosystem of which Hamas is the armed face. Neither Hamas, nor its relays, nor the networks that shout here “we are Hamas, we are Hezbollah.”

This is not theory. On October 7, 2024, in Vancouver, at a rally organized by Samidoun — later listed as a terrorist entity in Canada — a masked speaker shouted: “Death to Canada, death to the United States, death to Israel,” then added “we are Hezbollah and we are Hamas.” The Canadian flag was burned. Samidoun later defended the slogan.

Video of a pro-Hamas activist glorifying the October 7 attacks and chanting death to Canada

Photo of pro-Hamas militants burning the Canadian flag

In Montreal, this is not a social-media anecdote. Graffiti in the metro. Traffic signs hijacked to write in English “globalize the intifada.” An anti-NATO and pro-Palestinian riot with smashed storefronts. TVA and Journal de Montréal premises vandalized. Montreal for Palestine demonstrations occupying downtown, harassing Christmas markets, displaying effigies. The vandalism is not an accident along the way. It is a method. And too often, Quebec French exists in these processions only as décor to be scorned: slogans in English, imported codes, barely veiled contempt for those who have lived here all along.

We finance over there. We collect the bill here.

A state that can no longer guarantee bread and a roof, but that finds $100 million between two sessions at the UN, has lost its sense of priorities. A state that sends hundreds of millions toward a territory run by listed Islamist terrorists, while tolerating the burning of its own flag, has lost its sense of self.

I say it without wrapping, because a column is not a Global Affairs Canada communiqué:

I do not want my taxes to fund Hamas, its satellites, or any Islamist “unit” whatsoever.

I am sick of seeing the money of people who struggle to house themselves sent toward wars that are not ours. Canada first. Quebec first. The rest afterward, if anything is left.