Juno News - February 26, 2021


Is Canada funding terrorism and extremism？


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6 minutes

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00:00:00.000 so if you're like me you like to keep track as best as you can of where your money is going and
00:00:11.040 it's the same whether it's my personal finances or government finances i want to make sure that
00:00:15.680 the money is well spent and it's actually going to the things that i would like it to go to so
00:00:20.160 you know i don't want to have a 200 budget for groceries and find out that only 30 actually
00:00:25.360 went to groceries or that all the 200 went to buying snacks now this is something that is very
00:00:31.280 important and two mps took up the task with regards to some foreign aid that canada is making donations
00:00:36.720 to now the two mps are peter kent and marty morance who asked minister karina gould about canada's
00:00:42.960 funding to unra now unra is the united nations relief works agency for palestine and the near east
00:00:50.000 and it is responsible for providing care for palestinian refugees now we'll get into palestinian
00:00:54.880 refugees in just a minute but let's talk about the aid for a second now there's a background here
00:00:59.200 that canada basically pledged 90 million dollars over the next three years for unra so for the
00:01:04.960 relief works agency for palestine and that is supposed to provide basic education help social
00:01:09.600 services to palestinian refugees that's you know 75 million over three years and then the rest is for
00:01:15.200 additional refugees created by the syrian war now this is going to operate in places like the west bank
00:01:21.840 gaza syria lebanon and jordan so a couple of problems with this entire thing first of all
00:01:28.880 unra has been repeatedly found to promote anti-semitic material in its educational materials so for
00:01:35.840 example this latest report shows that the children are being given exercises math exercises and writing
00:01:40.800 exercises about pieces of corpses being strewn throughout the streets and that's you know a
00:01:45.920 spelling test or an english test or you know some kind of test they also strictly refer to israel as
00:01:51.280 the enemy or the occupation the occupier and it's pretty much removed from all maps so there is and
00:01:57.200 never was in israel it's strictly palestine now not only does this type of education make it more
00:02:03.040 difficult for there to be peace in the region since you have an entire generation or possibly generations
00:02:07.360 by now of kids growing up to believe that there never was in israel that israel has absolutely
00:02:11.840 no legitimacy in the region that every single person there is an occupier which is you know it's
00:02:17.120 untrue my family for example is from the middle east so you know this is something that canada is
00:02:23.200 funding and we should be concerned but what is it about unrest something i think slipped by a lot of
00:02:28.160 people when i read this uh the first time and this is where this money is going to be used and it is
00:02:33.360 places like the west bank gaza syria lebanon and jordan so go through them one by one the west bank
00:02:40.400 now most of that where palestinian lives most of that areas where palestinians live that is
00:02:46.160 actually under the governance of the palestinian authority so that's the palestinian government
00:02:50.880 and one might wonder why they need a un agency if they have their own government now fine they might
00:02:55.920 be providing aid or something but all right it's still a question you know something to look deeper
00:02:59.600 into same thing with gaza now gaza is run by hamas which is considered a terrorist organization in
00:03:05.840 canada and so all right you might say the people there uh you know they have serious problems uh
00:03:11.200 maybe they you know are lacking some basic services but you may recall from a previous video where the
00:03:17.840 issue of gaza came up and there's an ongoing hashtag you can look it up on twitter called the gaza you
00:03:23.440 don't see and it shows all of the expensive things being brought into gaza and so obviously there's an
00:03:29.520 issue but there's also a large disparity between the haves and have nots in gaza so again it's not as
00:03:34.960 simple as just the un is providing money and every single person there is a refugee
00:03:38.320 but the other big ones that should be really confusing to a lot of people are syria lebanon
00:03:43.520 and jordan and so you might ask why are there palestinian refugees from the original 1948 war
00:03:49.120 even the 67 war which is you know slightly more recent why are there palestinian refugees in syria
00:03:54.080 lebanon and jordan that would be like you know someone who was a refugee from that war moving to canada
00:03:59.520 and remaining a palestinian refugee never getting citizenship never you know never becoming
00:04:04.880 uh you know syrian jordanian or lebanese that's because of a couple things number one it's
00:04:11.200 because of how anra defines its refugees it defines refugees as anyone who is a descendant
00:04:16.640 of the people who were forced to vacate their homes if they lived in that area in the 1948 war or also
00:04:22.320 in the 67 war so you could be a descendant your grandfather could have been there and you still
00:04:26.320 count as a refugee that's very very different from the un hcr the un high commissioner for refugees
00:04:32.560 where you would lose your refugee status in many cases if you became a citizen or you lived in
00:04:37.120 another country and you know you're permanent resident now you don't you're not a stateless
00:04:40.400 person you're not you know you're not a refugee you have been set up in some fashion so for the
00:04:45.360 palestinian agency you don't really ever lose your refugee status where the normal refugee agency for
00:04:51.360 all other refugees in the world except for palestinians you would lose your refugee status somehow so
00:04:56.560 this is sort of one uh problem but the other problem is the fact that those three countries
00:05:01.760 syria lebanon and jordan basically have kept those people as refugees because they know that it will
00:05:06.960 prolong the conflict and it's a way to sort of punish israel or to just use it as a political
00:05:12.640 bargaining chip in international affairs so they actually in many countries for example in lebanon
00:05:17.600 there's actually laws against what you can become as a profession if you are a palestinian so
00:05:23.200 they have their own issues and for canada to be funding the uh unra the palestinian um united
00:05:29.760 nations relief works agency for uh palestine and the near east for us to be funding that money and
00:05:35.520 not making sure that a they're not using this money to promote hate and do things that will harm
00:05:41.520 any chance of peace in the future because what what they're doing is definitely harming any chance
00:05:45.040 of peace in the future and that the money is appropriately spent so i think you know as canadians
00:05:50.720 it's one thing if you want to have a discussion about foreign aid or international aid we you know
00:05:54.160 we want to help out people who are in trouble and i think there's a really good discussion for us to
00:05:58.400 have about that but if we do decide to send aid abroad i think we all owe it to all other taxpayers
00:06:06.000 and everyone else in canada to have that discussion to make sure that our money is going to be used
00:06:10.640 appropriately so that's pretty much up for this issue and i think we we can all agree especially with the
00:06:15.840 government spending a lot of money these days we want to make sure it is being used appropriately
00:06:19.520 so uh you know for true north i am sam ashkenazi thank you so much for watching this video