00:04:52.120We're giving them money for loans, but the money that they owe us from the loans that they've taken out, we've said, okay, you don't have to pay until March 2027.
00:05:01.740So there's some loan forgiveness, fair, they're in a situation there, they've been invaded, and they're fighting a war.
00:05:10.280But, you know, in addition to the money that we're paying to support them economically, we're supporting them on a humanitarian basis as well.
00:05:19.800And since January 2022, we've committed $372.2 million to Ukraine in humanitarian assistance.
00:05:27.480Now, I'm going to say something that may not be popular, and it may not even be accurate, but I'm under the impression that prior to this invasion that they experienced,
00:05:37.160the Ukraine was not always free of corruption.
00:05:40.780There was a certain amount of corruption that Ukraine was actually known for.
00:05:46.160It behooves me to wonder if a certain amount of corruption is still occurring while this war is covering it up.
00:05:53.080But my first question would be, are the same people still there that were corrupt before the war?
00:06:08.420But without an accounting at all, and it's, you know, a rule of NATO and just accepted, we don't have to have any sort of accounting for what's going on there.
00:06:29.580Committed, sorry, by Trudeau to this effort.
00:06:32.700And then Carney has come in and committed more and then committed more again.
00:06:36.140Most recently, absent from a photo where all of the contributors to the war effort around the world were in a lovely photo, the one person missing, of course, was Mark Carney.
00:06:50.560I think this made him feel badly because within about a week, there he was arriving to the Ukraine with another $2 billion so that he could have his photo op with Zelensky.
00:07:29.040But it's not being communicated to the people.
00:07:32.340So all we have left are the facts, and we're just going to talk about what money is going where without any judgment as to whether or not that's right or wrong.
00:07:40.800It feels wrong to make a judgment call.
00:07:42.940It feels wrong to make a judgment call, but I think it's right to bring this up and to question this and have public discourse, some dialogue around this.
00:07:56.080And it's coming at a time where our country doesn't have that much money to be spending.
00:08:01.160And I'm not saying we need to pull back and not help other nations, but I think it's just important that Canadians are aware as to, A, how much money we're giving to Ukraine, and, B, where is it supposedly going?
00:08:16.620Well, a broader development support fund was put together, $700 million, I think it was, including energy systems and reconstruction.
00:08:25.980And, yeah, we've committed hundreds of millions of dollars to that, to reconstructing this country as it is being dismantled, which I think is important because that's, I would assume, how we're going to start to get our money back.
00:08:39.980Through development and reconstruction, yeah, and that makes total sense.
00:08:43.880But some of the money that we're giving to Ukraine isn't necessarily going towards that.
00:08:47.440For example, we've committed approximately $700 million in development assistance to fund areas like inclusive governance and economic growth and gender equality.
00:09:01.060So these are things that I wouldn't necessarily suspect a war-torn nation to require or to put their hand up and ask for.
00:09:08.920So what you're saying is we handed off virtue-signaling money that said, please spend it on these things that are important to Canadians.
00:09:28.120But you need to spend it on things like addressing the needs of victims of sexual and gender-based violence, supporting mental health, agriculture, and energy.
00:09:38.740Agriculture and energy, I do understand.
00:09:40.920Once again, that's how you rebuild a nation.
00:09:43.460I think that the other concerns should be the ongoing concerns of that government.
00:09:48.460Of that government and their people, their way of life, their customs.
00:10:13.160And I think that shift is going to come to Canada as well.
00:10:16.660I think a certain amount of this military spending will certainly protect the borders between the Ukraine and Russia, protecting a certain amount of the world.
00:10:26.940It is devastating what has happened to the Ukraine and the people of the Ukraine.