Canada can and should do more to help that country defeat Russia, get Ukrainian grain exported, demine booby-trapped towns and cities, and support refugee families who’ve landed here, said Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.
Joly said Canada can and should do more to help that country defeat Russia, get Ukrainian grain exported, demine booby-trapped towns and cities, and support refugee families who’ve landed here.
An audience member noted the Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian governments offer money to private hosts, housing support to refugees, and free public transport including on rail. In contrast, she said, her Ukrainian cousin and five children, now living at her one-bedroom home, will receive about $10,000 in support, enough to cover “maybe two months of housing and a bit of food if we’re lucky.”
“I think that our priority right now also is to process all the demands because there’s more than 100,000 demands that have not been processed yet,” she said. However, the Baltic representatives said Canada had been a strong ally, citing its leadership of a NATO battalion group based in Latvia. Some 1,300 Canadian soldiers are now posted there.
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