Overview

• Newly released Global Affairs Canada documents show at least $170,000 spent on business-class flights, Montreal Airport Marriott stays and hospitality items for eight returned women and their children.
• An entry for CONOP2 lists $132,445 in costs, marking a $25,000 budget overrun driven by unexpectedly high hotel bills.
• Global Affairs Canada said it assumed immediate costs but declined to detail them and is withholding about 50 pages pending foreign-government review.
• The disclosed files cover only reception expenses in Montreal and do not account for the costs of extracting the women from Syrian detention camps.
• Some repatriated women now face terrorism charges, guilty pleas or peace bonds while victims’ families denounce the “extravagant” spending and call for greater transparency.