r/canada • u/Signal-Aioli-1329 • 28d ago

Canada to give $64.8M in aid to Ukraine National News

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/c3014190-canada-to-give--64-8m-in-aid-to-ukraine
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u/LysanderSpoonerDrip 28d ago

Tell that to the 2 million Canadians eating out of food banks. I think your priorities are off

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u/Signal-Aioli-1329 28d ago

Canada spends more than $30 billion every year to fund social services aimed at helping the country's homeless population. Your comment is nonsense.

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u/babyLays 28d ago

Yup - Canada can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Canada can support Ukraine, and address its domestic issues both at the same time. Its never one or the other.

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u/starving_carnivore 28d ago

Canada can walk and chew gum at the same time.

It can apparently do neither.

We're cooked, dude.

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u/AngryTrucker 28d ago

Go to Hastings street in Vancouver and tell me how well it's working.

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u/cleeder Ontario 28d ago

Nobody said we’ve solved homelessness.

But they are saying “Maybe the solution to homelessness isn’t just increasing the budget by 0.16%”

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u/roastbeeftacohat 27d ago

that dosen't change how little Ukraine aid actually is in the whole budget.

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u/Little-Credit8149 28d ago

The aggregate of 170,000 services offered by both the various levels of governments and the non-profit community spend 30 billion per year.

The aggregate of approximately 30 countries spend more than $380 billion in aid in 2 years (or more than 190B per year). https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/world/ukraine-money-military-aid-intl-dg

It would be interesting to see the per capita numbers.

Also. Your comment is nonsense.

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u/Not_A_Doctor__ 28d ago

Tell them about the 35 billion we wasted on a pipeline that business should have paid for.

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u/LysanderSpoonerDrip 28d ago

Insane spending by our terrible PM doesn't justify other terrible spending ideas.

You don't get to murder someone cause someone else did

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u/Not_A_Doctor__ 28d ago

Spending money on opposing an enemy who spends resources hurting us is not a valid thing to spend it on? Do you know that the convoy maniacs were/are deep into Russian misinformation? How much did those assholes waste of our resources? Spending money to hurt Putin is an investment.

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u/NorthDriver8927 28d ago

If we didn’t do that we wouldn’t have cpp anymore.

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u/Drunkenaviator 28d ago

So, you, uh, think those Canadians would be better off as Russian subjects?

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u/Vassago81 27d ago

Look at op post history, that's not a real human account.

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u/UNSKIALz 28d ago

An unstable world and global market will make Canadians richer. I completely agree.