Canada is sending another $40 million in aid to organizations that are helping Palestinians in Gaza after pausing funding to the UN’s relief agency in the region.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The Canadian government has always cared more about the citizens of other nations than they do their own. Canadians are drowning and entire families are falling into homelessness, but you can’t get a penny out of our government, but if you’re a foreign citizen you get 40 million

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      With 200K+ homeless, 40M would mean 200$ per person; that’s enough to maybe cover 2 weeks of rent, after which they will be homeless again unless they find a job to cover for it.

      How much is enough then? Well, the 1.1B budgeted in 2021 and 500M for 2022-2023 is definitely an improvement, but it’s unclear what the impact is, in retrospective, as there have not been any reliable statistics on how many homeless there are, how they are receiving help, why they were homeless in the first place. It’s unclear what proportion of the money is used to create new housing, given directly to the homeless, provided to non-profit without string attached, or used in specific programs (food bank/stamp, rehab, mental health centers, etc.)

      The best way to learn more about it is to directly be involved in volunteering opportunities to help the homeless, which is much more effective than complaining about wo the government should be caring about.

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      Yup, and if not for the current war all 40 million of which would go into building tunnels and filling pockets of Hamass thugs and terrorists. It probably still will not be used for poor people there.