Written by: Jennie-Laure Sully Canadian and US military aircrafts landed in Haiti to deliver military equipment to the Haitian national police, on October 15, 2022. These aircrafts were preceded by the arrival of the US national coast guard in Haitian waters three days earlier. How can su
Very few Canadian journalists have investigated or reported on the failures of Canadian involvement in Haiti. There is also a resounding silence about the role of Canadian mining companies, in the exploitation of Haiti’s workers and pillaging of Haiti’s natural resources. Canadians who want to find out what is going on in Haiti right now will be misled if their only sources of information are US and Canadian mainstream media. For the past few days, the main talking points that pass for news about Haiti have been about “gang violence” and about “calls for international intervention to help Haiti”. These talking points are misleading because they obscure a certain number of embarrassing facts about Canada’s role in the ever-increased violence Haitians have been enduring in the past decades. A well-informed Canadian public would undoubtedly conclude that foreign interventions are a problem, not a solution in Haiti and all members of the Core group, starting with Canada and the United-States, should get out of Haiti.