The United Nations and Canada
In the petition that is currently in the Canadian parliament the ask is straightforward, “to urgently implement Canada's expeditious withdrawal from the UN and all of its subsidiary organizations, including WHO.” Two of the grievances stated in this petition signed by more than 90,000 Canadians are:
Canada's membership in the United Nations (UN) and its subsidiary organizations, (e.g. World Health Organization (WHO)), imposes negative consequences on the people of Canada, far outweighing any benefits.
Canada's agreement to participate in the UN/WHO comprehensive “Agenda 2030” undermines national sovereignty and personal autonomy.
In the official response to the petition, the government stated that it is “committed to increasing our presence at the United Nations and in multilateral institutions and that it “continues to work on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Also, with the 2024 federal budget announcement, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen stated, “What I can tell you because the budget was just introduced, is we’re very happy with the fact that our government is doubling down on international assistance.” The budget had pledged an additional $150 million in humanitarian aid for 2024-25 and $200 million next fiscal year. The minister’s media release reported that the Trudeau government increased foreign aid every year since 2016, and during the COVID-19 pandemic years and with the war in Ukraine, there was additional aid provided, exceeding $8 billion.
For 2024-25, Kate Higgins, the head of Cooperation Canada which represents more than 100 Canadian non-profits, has estimated the total amount of Canada’s foreign aid is just over $7 billion and next year it will rise to $7.2 billion. Much of this money flows to the UN and its agencies (more on these figures below).
With respect to a specific pledge of Canadian money to the UN, PM Justin Trudeau committed $5 billion to its’ 2030 Agenda in his recent appearance before the UN General Assembly. In his UN address Trudeau stated, “We're at a global inflection point, faced with escalating instability, undermining the very foundations of the international order, beset by the increasing costs of climate change, contending with rising inequality, plagued by the erosion of women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights and indigenous rights, and grappling with dire humanitarian crises, perpetuating record levels of displacement.”
It is unclear how the PM’s $5 billion 2030 Agenda commitment factors with the $7 billion-plus the government is funneling to global aid programs. The government is not transparent with the details of its commitments or with its math.
Given the Trudeau government’s wide-scale support for the UN and its global agendas, it should be of the utmost interest for Canadians to monitor our country’s involvement in four areas, tracking both the stream of money committed to UN initiatives and, more importantly, the transfer of authority from the national to the international level. The four areas to monitor are:
the ever-expanding UN programs and their increasing costs for Canadians
the UN’s 2030 Agenda and the 17 SDG initiatives – and the accelerated goals set in the recent Pact for the Future
establishment of the legal framework for full implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
the implementation of the objectives set out in the UN Global Compact for Migration
Here are a few thoughts on what requires attention with these four areas of concern.
The ever-expanding UN programs and the costs for Canadians
Nowhere is there a spreadsheet where Canadians can see how much of taxpayers’ dollars are being donated to the UN and its associated initiatives, whether it be peacekeeping missions or environmental programs fighting climate change. Billions of dollars and no explanations, no tally. As mentioned, an independent assessment pegs Canadians’ foreign aid contributions at more than $7 billion annually. The PM just pledged $5 billion towards the UN 2030 Agenda.
The government states Canada is “the sixth-largest donor to the UN, providing more than US$2 billion annually in voluntary and assessed contributions.” This $2 billion figure must be Canadians’ contributions towards the UN staff and operations, because the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) factors that Canada spent just over US$8 billion in foreign aid last year.
An aside, the Canadian government operates “permanent mission” offices in New York, Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna, as well as diplomatic offices for UN work in Montreal, Rome, London and Paris. Is any of the stated US$2 billion used to staff and operate these offices or is this an additional expense?
Matthew Horwood and Omid Ghoreishi, investigative reporters at The Epoch Times, attempted to track Canadian foreign aid dollars and provided an insightful piece, “What Is Canada’s Annual $16 Billion in Foreign Aid Being Spent On?” They assessed, “In total, Canada provided $2.27 billion to U.N. agencies, $703 million collectively to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, $602 million to regional development banks, and another $1.03 billion to other multilateral organizations.”
They also identified that, “The government has announced $5.3 billion in “international climate finance” for developing countries from 2021-2026.” Other noteworthy figures in this telling article include, “In 2022-2023, Canada sent $1.78 billion for health expenditures and $1.29 billion in humanitarian assistance internationally.”
Billions of dollars announced for multiple programs – and nowhere is there an accurate accounting of the money flow. There is no transparency regarding just how much Canadians are giving and to what.
Layered on top of this issue is the fact that the UN organization continues to grow in size and its activities grow in scope. From the UN website, here is a description of its funds and programs from 2022 (the last available data published) and here is the publicly published UN Budget. From these documents we learn:
“The UN system is comprised of more than 30 affiliated organizations, programs, funds, and specialized agencies, with their own membership, leadership, and budget processes. These entities work with and through the UN Secretariat to promote peace and prosperity.
UN funds and programs are financed through voluntary rather than assessed contributions…”
Dr. Meryl Nass, outspoken American critic of the UN’s global agendas, states the UN creates international organizations to effectively orchestrate a chorus of authorities that will sing from the same global hymn book. Dr. Nass uses other colourful analogies: “international organizations sprout like mushrooms to echo each others’ false narratives and pay the bills” and the global entities like the UN, WHO, World Bank, MPOX, GPMB and others are a “spider’s web of organizations whose job is to disinform.”
Dr. Nass contends that the formulation of new global entities is strategic, “This allows nations to donate to many different agencies without citizens being aware the money is all going to practically the same place and the same group of people to push a similar set of policies.”
One recent example she cites arises from “the Early Warnings for All scheme” that is found in the UN’s Pact for the Future. She writes, “The UN is such a joke. They claim the cost of this vague program is $3.1 billion over 5 years. In the next breath it is 50 cents per person per year, or $20 billion over 5 years. Why don’t they simply write, “Send Money”?”
Canada has signed onto the Pact for the Future (more on this below) and will be contributing to this UN initiative: Early Warnings for All. Is this included in the $5 billion commitment announced by PM Trudeau or is this something more?
Another grave concern for Canadians must be the insidious corruption that is found within the UN. This fact should not be ignored or rationalized. Michael Taube, veteran Canadian newspaper columnist and political commentator, makes this observation in a recent opinion piece:
“Today’s U.N. resembles a political cesspool controlled by totalitarian states and rogue nations who reject democracy, liberty, and freedom. Here are several examples illustrating its stunning decline and fall: Iran and Iraq were scheduled to co-chair a 2003 U.N. nuclear disarmament conference before Saddam Hussein was toppled from power; North Korea, a major nuclear threat, chaired the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in 2011; Libya chaired the U.N. Human Rights Commission in 2003, and was a U.N. Security Council member; Syria chaired the U.N. Security Council in June 2002 and August 2003, and sat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
It’s only getting worse with time. The most recent example involves the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA.”
Canadians can trace the Trudeau government’s actions relating to the terrorist involvement of the UNRWA staff as a case in point as to why Canadian officials must remain vigilant on what UN initiatives we support and fund. Consider the recent news involving the UNRWA.
It is widely recognized that the UN’s flow of money to UNRWA has produced an ever-expanding, ever-dependent people in Gaza, which after 75 years is still being defined by the UN as a refugee state. The UNRWA is ensconced as a “refugee camp administration” for 5.9 million Palestinians, a figure that has grown from 700,000 people in 1949. Today, it provides “refugee relief” for health care for 1.9 million refugees, education for 543,000 students, and social services and/or welfare assistance for 400,000 refugees. The UNRWA support is also extended to 483,500 Palestinians who are living in civil war-torn Syria.
UNRWA staff participated in the horrific attacks of the Hamas in Israel on October 7.
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, American intelligence services estimates “1,200 of UNRWA’s roughly 12,000 employees in Gaza have links to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who belong to the Islamist militant groups.” It had been known for years by Canadian officials that money provided to UNRWA was being used to support Hamas in Gaza and to foster antisemitism with the Gazan population, particularly with children.
Still, the Trudeau government announced in June 2023 that it was giving $100 million over four years to UNRWA, an increase from the $90 million annual aid provided from 2019 to 2023. After the October 7 terror, Canada was the first G7 country to send assistance to Gaza. Although the government stated it had paused funding when the allegations were made against UNRWA workers, there are conflicting accounts of whether Canadians halted their funds to Gaza. Canadian money continues to be funneled to UNRWA for Gazan civilians with the knowledge that it is being controlled by Hamas.
Similar corruption with a UN agency is now coming to light with the news from southern Lebanon. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been exposed as having permitted the Hezbollah terror group to dig military tunnels near the Israel border. Literally a stone’s throw away from the UNIFIL watchtower, Hezbollah built and armed a tunnel with a store of explosive devices and military equipment to be used in its terrorism activities against Israel.
Bottom line for Canadians who are concerned about the dollars flowing to the UN is to “follow the money.” Canadians must demand greater transparency and accountability of their federal government and the commitments made to the UN and its innumerable initiatives.
Pursuing the goals set in the UN’s 2030 Agenda and the Pact for the Future
Canadians need to be aware of what is contained in the UN’s foundational documents UN’s 2030 Agenda and Pact for the Future. By George Journal provides these summaries:
Without repeating the details found within the documents and our summaries, here are the salient points to consider with respect to the UN. In the months and years to come, Canadians should track how the federal government responds to the globalists’ increasingly urgent demands about achieving the goals set for 2030.
The 17 sustainable development goals that comprise the UN’s 2030 Agenda advocate for an utopian world of socialism. For the UN globalist technocrats and officials “sustainable development” is more about redistributing wealth than it is about growth and development. The UN’s agenda is not one that ascribes to the analogy that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Poorer countries are not supported to aspire to a greater wealth, but rather wealthier countries are taxed so that the UN may administer and manage “equality” among peoples around the world.
The Pact for the Future, signed by Canada and most other countries this September, is a document that reconfirms the 2030 Agenda. In adopting this UN document, all countries are recommitting to doing everything they can to meet the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals. The pact has called for member countries to accelerate their efforts to meeting the 2030 goals – to “turbo-charge implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.”
From a Canadian perspective there are four specific items to watch for, especially given the hidden agendas of the Trudeau government at play. First, the government is proceeding with its UN-related action plan without the authority of the Canadian parliament. Canada is proceeding as if the Pact is a treaty agreement – without having it debated or ratified by our country’s elected representatives. The concern about the UN usurping national sovereignty is currently being forcibly debated in the U.S. by people like Dr. Sherri Tenpenny and Dr. Meryl Nass. In Canada, there has been no such public debate.
Second, Canadians need to remember that the UN and World Economic Forum (WEF) signed a “strategic partnership framework” which brought the two organizations together to pursue their respective global agendas under one overarching global agenda. Background on this UN-WEF alignment can be found here: WEF’s powerplay partnership with the UN. So, consider the program agendas of the UN and WEF to be one in the same.
Third, the globalists’ lead financier for all activities working towards the 2030 Agenda deadlines is none other than Canadian Mark Carney. His official title is the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance. As Canadians can appreciate, he is a man wearing many hats, a proverbial “walking-talking conflict of interests.” Today, he is PM Trudeau’s economic growth advisor, the Liberal election team’s economic policy architect, a strategic (and personal) confidant of WEF Trustee and Canadian finance minister Chrystia Freeland – and Carney is the Chair of mega-investment firm Brookfield (the same firm that is soliciting the federal government to complete an investment package of Canadian holdings worth upwards of $50 billion). As detailed in a previous By George Journal article, Carney is central to the commitments Canada has made to the global agendas.
“As a financial point man for globalist interests, Carney is acting in international circles as part-broker, part-croupier to actively manage the financing of the UN member countries’ energy transition. Therefore, it is not a stretch to believe Carney’s policy thrust with the Liberals will be more of the same: a doubling down on the decarbonizing of the Canadian economy, a further entrenchment of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards, and the increased subsidization of green programs.
It is not often mentioned, but Carney is author of a book Value(s): Building a Better World for All in which he makes the claim that western society is morally rotten, corrupted by capitalism, and this rot has resulted in a “climate emergency” that threatens life on earth. His answer to the global crisis is a mix of rigid controls on personal freedom, and the coercion of corporate and industry players to finance a global climate plan.”
Fourth, the UN’s 2030 Agenda is expressly anti-oil and gas (just ask the UN’s darling poster girl Greta Thunberg). In adhering to the UN’s objectives, the Trudeau government has consistently enacted measures designed to stunt development of the country’s oil and gas resources. Consider how the UN and WEF green initiatives are playing out in Canada. Compare the Trudeau government’s explanations of its green agenda to that of the narrative being advanced by the UN and WEF. Finally, assess the present day global energy reality and data from the Canadian oil and gas industry to fully appreciate the economic detriment of the Trudeau government’s implementation of globalists’ anit-oil and gas initiatives.
Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a document that is providing the framework and policy direction for the government’s dealings respecting Canada’s indigenous peoples.
With the UNDRIP, a nation’s historic agreements and legal arrangements are replaced by the evolving understanding of a global consensus on the rights afforded to indigenous peoples and the legal rulings set down by international courts.
The original draft of the UN document was adopted by countries around the world in 2007. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. were the only four countries to vote against the declaration. But, succumbing to international pressures, the Stephen Harper government endorsed the declaration in 2010 as an “aspirational document”. In 2021, the Trudeau government passed into law “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act” which is to align the country’s federal laws with the spirit of the declaration. The Act reads, in part,
“that the Government of Canada will work in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous peoples, to:
Take all measures necessary to ensure the laws of Canada are consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the UN Declaration).
Prepare and implement an action plan to achieve the objectives of the UN Declaration.”
Today, UNDRIP may be considered a legally non-binding human rights instrument but in Canada is has a legal standing and is being factored into the law of the land.
Last year, the Trudeau government made public its implementation plan for UNDRIP in a document “Action Plan 2023-28”. The document includes 181 measures to adopt the UN’s declaration into Canada. It states, “we are charting a new way forward in building renewed, nation-to-nation, Inuit-Crown, government-to-government relationships based on the affirmation of rights, respect, co-operation and partnership.”
This government document forecasts the impact the UN declaration will have on Canadian laws.
“Given the scope of the UN Declaration, many federal laws intersect with elements of the Declaration. We anticipate that some existing federal laws will need to be amended in order to better align with the UN Declaration. This legislation provides a whole-of-government framework for identifying and guiding such future changes. New legislation will also need to be developed with the UN Declaration in mind.
The full and effective implementation of the UN Declaration is a process that will take time as the federal government, in cooperation and partnership with Indigenous peoples, assesses changes that need to be made to laws, policies and practices to be consistent with the UN Declaration. Any future changes will need to go through regular policy development, engagement and parliamentary processes.”
This is an involved process. The Trudeau government has embarked on a long process of rewriting Canadians relations with Canada’s indigenous communities – guided by the understandings and court rulings of the international community.
Former Trudeau Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould - a member of the We Wai Kai Nation in BC - is critical of the current government’s efforts to move the declaration along and begin the accommodation actions necessary to implement the spirit of the UN’s declaration in Canada. At an annual general meeting of the Assembly of First Nations in 2023, Wilson-Raybould stated, “There is lots of lofty rhetoric. But the passage of this legislation has not resulted in one piece of land being given back, treaty promises being upheld, a family lifted out of poverty, a nation moving out from under the Indian Act, or clean drinking water running in a home on reserve.”
Clearly, the country’s indigenous people have expectations given Canada is a signatory of UNDRIP and the Trudeau government has made this UN declaration the law of the land. It is still too early to know what to make of the implementation of UNDRIP. But given the many implications of this UN initiative - and the fact Canada is now needing to assume international policies and court rulings - it is important for Canadians to stay current on the federal government’s advancement of UNDRIP.
Implementation of the UN Global Compact for Migration
The Trudeau government’s immigration plan is guided, in part, by the UN’s Global Compact for Migration, which Canada signed onto in early 2017. With this compact agreement, the UN set in place a system for “safe, orderly and regular” migration from 3rd world countries, mostly from the continent of Africa. Signatories to the compact pledged to open their borders to migrants.
Today, Canada has the world’s largest intake of 3rd world migration – mostly from Africa.
Under the Trudeau government, immigration numbers for permanent residency have increased dramatically from under 300,000 in 2015 to the half-million level today. But the stated “permanent resident” number is only half the Trudeau-migrant tally. Today the government states there are 2.2 million “temporary residents” who are in Canada and, at the same time, admits this official number may be off by as many as one million people.
In addition to the increasing immigration levels, in the last few years Canada has also taken in increasing numbers of refugees. The 2021 UN report on refugee relocation recognized Canada as a global leader in accepting the largest number of refugees of all 25 countries who participated in the UN resettlement plans. Canada took in 28,100 of 92,400 refugees managed by the UN in 2018. The UN also noted that there were about 1.4 million refugees in need of resettlement.
The Trudeau government’s immigration program is changing the composition of the country as documented by government statistics from Statistics Canada and the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada:
In 2022 and 2023 Canada’s population grew by a record amount, more than one million-plus people each year. Almost all (98 per cent) of that growth came from migration.
In 2022 the country’s population growth rate was 2.7 per cent, which is the highest rate in the world outside African countries. In 2023, it was even higher at 3.2 per cent.
According to the Canadian census, prior to 2015, immigration consisted of 28 per cent coming from the UK/Europe, and today this number has dropped to two per cent.
Nearly 98 per cent of immigrants now come from India, China, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, and other African countries.
First- and second-generation immigrants now account for 44 per cent of the country’s population, according to the 2021 census.
On July 1, 2015, Canada’s estimated population was 35,851,800. On June 16, 2023 Canada’s population surpassed the 40 million mark and nine months later on March 27, 2024 it surpassed 41 million.
All of this has been in accordance to the UN’s design for global migration. Shortly after Canada signed onto the Global Compact for Migration, then Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen made public the government marketing strategy called “Immigration Matters”. This public relations initiative was designed to sell the Trudeau government’s immigration policy to the Canadian public, and it included the promotion of “compelling storytelling to appeal to Canadians on an emotional level.” It came with a “toolkit” that instructed vested stakeholders to share and promote stories of communities enriched by immigration, so as to prompt positive conversations about the importance of immigration.
Canada’s immigration data from 2017 onward is a record of the UN’s migration plan impact on the country. The Trudeau government’s adherence to the UN plan has cost Canadians figuratively and literally. Aside from the dramatic alterations to Canadian society that have resulted from the influx of new people - many from 3rd world countries, the financial cost of increased migration to this country has been borne by Canadian taxpayers.
Factor the housing costs of migrants. Since 2017, government documents show that the immigration department has spent $1.76 billion in direct subsidies for temporary shelters. The 2024 budget includes a figure of $1.1 billion over the next three years for housing assistance. The federal government is providing provinces and municipalities an additional $362 million ($100 million for Quebec) for housing this year. It is also now considering purchasing hotels to house migrants – which may be less expensive then providing their current accommodation fees for occupying 4,000 hotel rooms.
Canadians are also paying for all resettlement costs for the migrants: health care, social services, phone and internet services, food, education, transportation, and a daily living expense.
Given that the cost to the country is huge on multiple levels, it is essential for Canadians to understand that what has happened here is by design. The UN’s global migration plans are the subject of an alarming documentary “Weapons of Mass Migration”, which is a must-watch for anyone wanting to better understand the motives and implications of the UN globalists’ strategies moving people from third world countries to welcoming hosts like Canada.
Last word: Canadians must demand greater transparency and accountability of their federal government when it comes to the international commitments made and their taxpayers’ money being shoveled to the global bodies of the UN and associated agencies, WEF, and World Health Organization. Without that transparency and accountability, Canadians have every reason to petition for exiting these organizations.
Read more in the By George Journal: The Globalists’ Agendas vs Canadians’ National Interests
Every Canadian needs to read this comprehensive essay. You won’t like what you learn, you need to be aware of the unforeseen consequences and expenses likely if Canada continues to adopt (succumb to) UN programs. We spend billions on the UN and receive nothing.
This Country has now lost its once esteemed position on this place called Earth so to benefit of WEF and the UN because our so called leader is just their puppet .