Avi Benlolo: Carney doles out cash to Palestinians. Canadians ask 'what about us'? - National Post
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a United Nations General Assembly meeting organized by France and Saudi Arabia in support of a two-state solution between Israel and Palestines, in a file photo from Sept. 22, 2025, in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty ImagesArticle contentOn the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week, Prime Minister Carney pledged an additional $100 million toward Palestinian 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.
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. This is despite warnings that the Palestinian police are becoming more like a 70,000-strong military force that could eventually threaten 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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Canada’s foreign policy is built on dispensing our hard-earned money to have a seat at the 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.” 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.
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. 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.”
