So let me get this straight....
Trump asks Canada for one billion Canadian tax dollars to join some globalist scheme to rebuild the Middle East pitched at the World Economic Forum.
And the Carney Liberals essentially declined / got disinvited.
It's going to be interesting to see how Maple MAGA and the pro-Trump WEF conspiracy crowd spin this one!
Why thank you for the invitation...
Personally, I'm glad Canada isn't going to be a part of that (for now) - although I have a feeling it may weaken us economically & diplomatically down the road.
A billion dollars is a lot of money, and quite frankly it's money we don't have. With an $84B deficit in the last federal budget, I hope/want the federal government to start penny pinching as much as reasonably possible.
And Gaza already receives a lot of Canadian tax dollars in foreign aid as it is.
i realize that the $1B 'entrance fee' is intended to be used for reconstruction, but I suspect that at least some of that money would have been squandered away on administrative costs anyway
We also have to remember, the plans the US, Israel, and others (Qatar, Dubai, etc) have for Gaza aren't well known outside of a fairly small group of people...
But Gaza isn't going to be rebuilt to what it was before Israel's military campaign - and until those final plans are announced to the public, it's probably wise not to dive in head first.
Especially as a politician in a country that has largely opposed Israel's actions there, and has a minority government, so could be facing an election in the near-ish future.
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Future plans for Gaza??
Hint hint - there was a massive natural gas reserve found underneath the general area that Gaza sits on - and there have been plans drawn up on the infrastructure needed to extract that resource for a while now.
My guess is that Gaza will not be rebuilt to be a primarily residential/commercial area for Palestinians the way it was prior to Israel's military campaign...
Now whether this whole thing happened because of that discovery, I'll leave that for my fellow conspiracy theorists to tackle...
(And f**k the WEF. All of em. Especially Starmer.)
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