All she has done is make Salad’s ability to try and set up there x1000 more difficult. Chantal is a fat invalid, she impedes everything. She is a 500 lb an albatross around his neck. Imaging trying to negotiate necessities and navigate socially with a 500 lb freak show waddling behind you.
I’m sure Chantal is being forced to meet and interact with lots of ppl. Word has gotten around. When you have dealt with a repressive govt, ten years of civil war, food shortages, rolling blackouts, etc…you are hungry for some novelty. Hearing that a local boy has imported some 500 lb Canadian bride would get everyone to extend invites, or drop by, to see for themselves. People want to see her with their own eyes.
It would have been a terrible idea for Chantal to go over if she was a normal, able bodied 40 year old woman, but she’s a disabled morbidly obese trainwreck.
This makes me think she told Salad no money was going to be forthcoming unless she came to Syria, so he relented. Living in Canada would have used up the majority of her income so I think she used it as leverage. Salad could either live in Syria getting a few k a month plus the 500 lb albatross or Syria without a 500 lb albatross but no money either.