Wine, candy and room service: How Ottawa spent $170,000 on Canadian ISIS women

This is crazy…
“One hotel room cost over $1,000 for two nights because of a $95 wine tab. Another ran to $850, with charges for junk food and $25 servings of red, white and sparkling wines.
The costs included $2,800 for catering, $24 sandwiches at the hotel’s Bijou restaurant bar, and $86 worth of snack food and over-the-counter drugs at a hotel gift shop.”

Federal officials spent at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria, according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy and wine.

The money was for costs incurred when eight women who had traveled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State returned to Canada with their children in 2022 and 2023. ---More...

This is crazy…

“One hotel room cost over $1,000 for two nights because of a $95 wine tab. Another ran to $850, with charges for junk food and $25 servings of red, white and sparkling wines.

The costs included $2,800 for catering, $24 sandwiches at the hotel’s Bijou restaurant… https://t.co/XCF6UM8nhi

— Franco Terrazzano (@franco_nomics)August 14, 2025

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