Canada should support Cuba’s transition to democracy

Canada, as a great democracy, should work night and day to assist Cuba in making the transition from autocracy to democracy. If the prime minister acts as an impediment to this process, he has lost the moral right to govern.

Protesters rally against the Cuban government on Parliament Hill on July 11. The pandemic hit Cuba hard and as a result, in recent weeks, the Cuban people have showed the courage to demonstrate against shortages in goods and in favour of greater freedom, write Andrew Caddell. Flickr photograph by lezumbalaberenjena

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

July 21, 2021

MONTREAL—I have never been to Cuba. Unlike hundreds of thousands of Canadians, including members of my own family, I have avoided travelling there or contributing to its GDP. It is not because I am a rabid anti-communist. It is pretty simple: I boycott countries that jail journalists or human rig...

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