Canada faces growing calls to help fuel-starved Cuba amid U.S. aggression

Canada faces growing calls to help fuel-starved Cuba amid U.S. aggression

The Canadian government is in a bind as it faces growing calls to help Cuba while the U.S. government attempts to choke off the island nation's fuel supplies. NDP interim Leader Don Davies and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet have both called on the Liberal government to send immediate aid to Cuba, where people are facing extensive blackouts and shortages of food, fuel and medicine.

Canada Must Speak on Cuba Sanctions - The Caribbean Camera

Canada silent while Cuba is being strangled When a foreign power can shut down commercial flights, strand thousands of Canadians abroad and deepen hardship for an entire nation without meaningful response from Ottawa something has gone badly wrong. The unfolding crisis in Cuba is not an abstract foreign policy debate. It is a test of whether Canada is willing to act independently when economic pressure is used as a political weapon. René Lévesqu…