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Should the government increase or decrease foreign aid spending?

Should Canada increase or decrease foreign aid spending?

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45%
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26%
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42%
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1%
Increase, but only for countries that have no human rights violations
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Decrease, until we drastically reduce our national budget deficit
1%
Decrease, and we should not give foreign aid to any countries
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Decrease, and deny aid to countries that harbor or promote terrorism

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 @9D6Q6NPfrom Quebec  answered…2yrs2Y

Only send aid during natural disasters

 @9VWWVJ4from British Columbia  answered…5mos5MO

Send supplies rather than funds and give to the organizations that help the community rather than the govt. Help more innocent victims.

 @8JYJ92Rfrom British Columbia  answered…4yrs4Y

i dont even know what this means

 @B3KFQF6from British Columbia  answered…23hrs23H

I believe it should neither increase nor decrease; instead, it should stay the same. However, we should ensure it's going to the right places and people. For example, we should make sure our support to the DRC is going to its people instead of a warlord.

 @B3FXT7Cfrom Manitoba  answered…5 days5D

We need to support others who cannot support themselves because they are already under attack. We would want others to assist us if we were invaded.

 @B395RFRfrom Ontario  answered…1wk1W

Cut off countries that abuse it abnd/or human rights, full stop. Also deny it to wealthy countries. And finally, attach strings; usage time limits and strict purposing.l, or it gets rescinded.

 @B36LMM7from Ontario  answered…2wks2W

Add foreign aid to individual people instead of the country and to poor countries example(African countries)

 @B35MPHBfrom Manitoba  answered…2wks2W

Completely remove Aid to Israel until at least such a time as they stop the aggression on Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and go back to 1967 borders and recognize the country of Palestine.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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