Canada: Liberals spent $170,000 on hotels, wine and candy for women they were bringing back from the Islamic State
Aug 19, 2025 9:00 am
By Christine Douglass-Williams
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The grave dangers of repatriating ISIS brides and their offspring (aka Cubs of the Caliphate) have been well described HERE. Adding to the risk to Canadians is the obscene expectation by the Liberal government of Canada that Canadian taxpayers must pay for it as well.
The article below describes what the government is heaping on Canadian taxpayers, while risking public safety. Now the opposition Conservative party is calling for an investigation “into ‘appalling’ government spending on Canadian ISIS women.”
“From hotels, to wine and candy: Canada spent $170K to bring back women who joined Islamic State,” by Tyler Dawson, National Post, August 15, 2025:
The federal government spent more than $170,000 to bring Canadian women and their children back to the country after they went overseas to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, documents show.
As first reported by Global News, the documents, which were released under access to information legislation, contain details of the costs incurred when eight women, along with their children, were brought home from Syria. They include costs for business class air travel and hotel bills in Montreal that include wine, candy and chocolates. A number of the women have since been charged with terrorism offences.
“With Canadians lining up in food banks in record numbers and struggling with housing costs, the Liberal government must answer for why they spent $170,000 on lavish costs to repatriate reported ISIS criminals,” the letter reportedly says….
The first round of repatriations, completed in October 2022, cost $10,863, according to the documents from Global Affairs Canada. Canadians Kimberly Polman and Oumaima Chouay were returned to the country in that operation. Polman is facing terrorism charges and Chouay pleaded guilty last month to one charge of participating in the activities of a terrorist group.
The second operation, which occurred in April 2023, cost $132,746 in expenses for government staff and those returned to Canada.
Not all the expenses are detailed in the documents, but the total cost includes $20,331 for 23 hotel rooms at the Marriott hotel at the Montreal Airport, including room-service bills and a catering tab of nearly $3,000. At the time, four Canadian women — three of whom were arrested upon arrival — and their 10 children were returned to Canada, The Canadian Press reported.
Among that group was Edmontonian Aimee Lucia Vasconez, who was married to two different ISIS fighters, according to an affidavit filed in court by an RCMP officer. Another, Ammara Amjad, was also arrested and faces a terrorism charge.
Individual bills show that one room cost nearly $1,100, driven up from the original room cost of $638 by purchases of $95 worth of wine, a $105 room-service meal and $87 worth of items from the hotel gift store, including chocolate, chips and drugs such as Benadryl and Reactine.
The third repatriation operation, done in early July 2023, cost more than $27,500 and saw a government of Canada employee purchase snacks, including goldfish and granola bars, from Costco, and Timbits from Tim Hortons, for the operation. Hotel rooms in Montreal cost a bit more than $2,300… |
