Birds of a feather: Ukraine corruption scandal won’t deter Canada from offering support, Anand says
An unfolding corruption scandal in Ukraine will not deter Canada from continuing its support for the war-torn country, but Ottawa expects Kyiv to implement reforms to fight graft, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said on Thursday.
Anti-corruption authorities said this week that they had detained five people and identified two others suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to control procurement at the country’s nuclear agency, Energoatom, and other state enterprises.
The allegations prompted Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers to quit, and have sparked questions about what the country’s highest officials knew of the alleged conspiracy.
It is fast becoming one of the most significant crises for Kyiv since Moscow’s full-scale invasion, with media reports implicating a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelensky. The alleged US$100-million scheme could also hand opponents of Western aid to Ukraine a rationale for cutting assistance after almost four years of war.
Ottawa has provided nearly $22-billion in various forms of aid to Ukraine since 2022.
Is it just me or is the entire Federal Government totally incompetent and working to destroy Canada?
No, it’s not just you. Competent, no; corrupt? All foreign aid ends in bank accounts somewhere. $22billion is going to have some “spillage”. And don ‘t forget that is $(borrowed)22billion
It’s not just you. And add as corrupt as Ukraine.
Every couple of months they announce new sanctions against Russia. Has anybody asked Anand or Carney what they are holding back?
“Update: we are still providing the most financial assistance to Ukraine in the G7 on a per capita basis, totalling almost $20 billion since 2022.”
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L – One corrupt government feeding the money laundry of the same elsewhere. Sacrificing the well being of their respective citizenry. While hurtling ever faster to failed state status. Or already achieved ? Will the citizenry rise to shoulder the responsibility of self government. It is a cross to bear. First mastering government of self to become a responsible adult. Then transferring that to the larger sphere of the nation to create responsible government in the body politic, too.
If the left is left unchecked is the ghost of Ukraine, a premonition of the ghost of Canada, to come?
See Charles Dickens “A Christmas Story” starring Alistair Sims. Unless you are too afraid. Then you are already lost.