The element this page anchors.
The headline ledger.
All figures below are taken from official Government of Canada publications. Sources are listed with each block; the full bibliography is at the bottom of this page.
Stream A — Canada to Ukraine.
Canada's commitments to Ukraine since the February 2022 escalation are tracked on a dedicated Global Affairs Canada page. The numbers below are from that public ledger and from Department of National Defence procurement announcements.
| Year | Category | Amount (CAD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Initial sovereign loan + lethal & non-lethal aid | $2.0B | GAC |
| 2022 | M777 howitzers, ammo, anti-tank, training | $0.5B+ | DND announcements |
| 2023 | Leopard 2 tanks (8) + crew training (Op UNIFIER expansion) | $0.4B+ | DND announcements |
| 2023 | NASAMS air-defence (joint US procurement) | $0.4B | DND, GAC |
| 2023 | Ukraine Sovereignty Bonds — Crown participation | $0.5B | Department of Finance Canada |
| 2024 | Multi-year military assistance commitment | $3.02B | GAC |
| 2024 | Loan from frozen Russian sovereign assets (G7 ERA) | $5.0B | Department of Finance Canada |
| 2024–25 | Refugee resettlement, biometrics, CUAET extensions | $1.0B+ | IRCC |
| Total committed (running) | $13.3B+ | GAC + DND + Finance | |
Procurement pathway. Most of the kinetic hardware — air-defence radars, anti-armour systems, counter-drone interceptors, tactical UAS — is sourced from defence primes who maintain Israeli production lines or Israeli-tier joint ventures. NASAMS contains Israeli-supplied AESA radar components. Counter-UAS systems include Drone Dome and SkyCeptor lineage. M-SHORAD pursuits include Iron Dome Tamir interceptor lineage. The Canadian dollar that buys these systems flows, by design, into the Israeli defence-industrial base.
Stream B — Canada to Israel.
The Government of Canada announced a "pause" on new export permits to Israel in January 2024. Project Ploughshares and the Canadian Justice and Peace Commission's 2024–2025 analyses, working from GAC's own annual export-of-military-goods reports, document that the pause was nominal:
| Window | Mechanism | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 (post-pause) | Pre-existing permits — 164 still active | $18.9M | GAC |
| 2025 | New permits issued post-pause | $37.2M | GAC |
| 2024 | Bombs / missiles category alone | $2.3M | GAC |
| 2024 | General Dynamics — artillery propellants (pre-pause permit) | $78.8M | Project Ploughshares |
| cumulative | Aircraft / spacecraft / electronic-warfare components | $90M+ | GAC + CJPME |
| Total during the "pause" (running) | $229M+ | GAC + Project Ploughshares | |
Stream C — How they connect.
The two streams are not separate. They share the same defence primes, the same Treasury Board approval flow, the same ministers, the same lobbying register, and the same media class. The mechanism is observable in eight steps:
- Treasury commitment. Cabinet announces a Ukraine-aid envelope or a defence-procurement award (Public Accounts shows the cash leaving Consolidated Revenue).
- Prime selection. The award lands with a defence prime — General Dynamics Land Systems Canada, Lockheed Martin Canada, Rheinmetall, MDA, or a smaller Canadian-Israeli joint venture (Aeronautics-Orbital, Elbit Canada, IAI North America).
- Israeli component. The prime sources critical sub-systems — AESA radars, EW pods, counter-drone interceptors, ATGM seekers, command-control software — from Israeli manufacturers. The end-system is "Canadian" on the procurement form; the production line is in Israel.
- End-use delivery. The system arrives in Ukraine via Op UNIFIER logistics, NATO-tier handoff, or direct GAC export authorisation. The same component families also flow to Israel as standalone exports under the same GAC permit regime.
- Public messaging. "Canada is helping Ukraine defend itself" and "Canada has paused exports to Israel." Both statements are simultaneously made by the same Cabinet. The procurement records show both are operating under the same approvals.
- Lobbying. CIJA logs 2,156+ communications with federal officials. Defence-industry associations (CADSI, AIAC) log additional thousands. Surge data post-October 2023 is +239% for CIJA. Bill C-233 (restrict Israel exports under EIPA) is defeated 22–295.
- Domestic deferral. Concurrently, the Indigenous-Services drinking-water shortfall is "$44B away from solved" while $3.86B is allocated. Veterans Affairs offers MAID instead of housing. Boil-water advisories enter their tenth year. Phoenix is unfixed.
- Audit silence. The Office of the Auditor General produces individual studies on each leg (procurement, Indigenous services, veterans) but the cross-leg ratio — foreign warfare-spend vs. domestic life-conditions deficit — is never published as a single performance indicator.
The Bill C-233 vote: who chose this on the record.
Bill C-233 (44th Parliament, 1st session) would have used the Export and Import Permits Act to restrict the export of arms and military components to states subject to credible allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law. It was defeated 22–295 in the House of Commons on 2024-03-11.
The named vote is per-MP, per-party, on the Hansard public record. The bill-c233.html page on this site reproduces the division roll. Liberal MPs voted overwhelmingly NO. Conservative MPs voted overwhelmingly NO. Twenty-two NDP, Bloc and independent MPs voted YES. The pattern is bipartisan: the same Cabinet that publicly "paused" Israeli exports voted to keep the legal pathway that enabled them.
The vote is the strongest single piece of element-(c) intent evidence in this dossier. Means? Yes. Knowledge of consequence? Yes (the bill itself documents it). Choice? Recorded by name, on Hansard. That triplet is what Convention Article II calls intent.
Why this lands inside a genocide dossier — narrowly.
This page does not argue that Canada is the principal in foreign war crimes. The site's claim is narrower and harder to dispute:
- Canada had the means. Public Accounts shows the Government of Canada commanded over $480B in program spending in fiscal 2024–25. The means to fund domestic life-conditions existed and were not deployed.
- Canada had the knowledge. Indigenous Services Canada publishes the boil-water tracker. Health Canada publishes MAID statistics. Veterans Affairs has the testimony. Statistics Canada publishes the fertility rate. The knowledge of domestic life-condition collapse is on the government's own websites.
- Canada chose otherwise. The same Cabinet, the same fiscal year, the same Treasury Board, committed $13.3B+ to Ukraine and $229M+ to Israeli arms. Bill C-233 was defeated 22–295 by name.
- Means + knowledge + choice = intent. That is the legal frame. The site is the named-record version of that frame.
What this is NOT.
To be exact: this page is not about Jewish Canadians, not about Canadian-Israeli citizens, not about the Israeli population. It is about a defence-industrial procurement lattice that operates between two sovereign states' export regimes and a captured Canadian Cabinet that signs the paperwork. The lobbying register is a public document naming organisations, not communities. The Hansard division list names individual MPs, not the people who elected them.
Antisemitism, anti-Ukraine prejudice, and ethnic blame have no place on this record and undermine the case. The case is a paper trail. Read it as one.
Pages that connect to this one.
Sources (this page).
- Global Affairs Canada — Canada's support for Ukraine. Multilateral, military, humanitarian, refugee-resettlement and sovereign-loan ledger, updated by GAC. international.gc.ca
- GAC Report on Exports of Military Goods (annual). Canada's annual disclosure of export permits issued under the Export and Import Permits Act, by destination state and category. Required reading: 2018 through 2024 editions. international.gc.ca
- Department of National Defence — procurement announcements (M777, Leopard 2, NASAMS, Op UNIFIER, IFC). DND public announcements + Public Accounts of Canada Vol. III. canada.ca/en/department-national-defence
- House of Commons Hansard — Bill C-233 vote, 2024-03-11. Division No. 692 of the 44th Parliament, 1st session. ourcommons.ca
- Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying — Registry of Lobbyists. CIJA, CADSI, AIAC, defence-prime files. Communication-report searches by date. lobbycanada.gc.ca
- Project Ploughshares — Canadian Military Exports analyses. Annual + topic-specific reports working from GAC data. ploughshares.ca
- Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East — CJPME. Tracking of Canadian arms exports to Israel since 2009; post-October 2023 weekly briefs. cjpme.org
- Department of Finance Canada — Ukraine Sovereignty Bonds + ERA. Loan from frozen Russian sovereign assets (G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration), Crown bond participation announcements. canada.ca/en/department-finance
- Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer — fiscal cost analyses. Independent costing of Ukraine assistance and defence procurement announcements where available. pbo-dpb.ca
- Office of the Auditor General of Canada — Indigenous Services audits. Drinking-water and housing performance audits showing the domestic side of the means-and-chose ledger. oag-bvg.gc.ca
- Indigenous Services Canada — Long-term drinking-water advisories tracker. The 35 long-term advisories (9 over a decade) on the domestic side of the funding-flow ledger. sac-isc.gc.ca
Cross-reference framework: argument-sources.html (the consolidated bibliography for the entire dossier) and methodology-transparency.html (sourcing rules this site holds itself to).