Haiti does not need gunboat diplomacy

It needs to be able to chart its own course, without being thwarted by unelected autocrats. It also needs Canada to mind its own business.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly and United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken hold a joint press conference on Oct. 27 in Ottawa. Canada doesn't have to support Blinken’s agenda. We could mediate a national reconciliation process, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.
OTTAWA—Foreign policy analysis is rarely framed in racialized terms. There is good reason for that. It can, if one is not careful, render the argument inadequate. However, in the case of Canada’s longstanding role in Haitian politics, it is not only appropriate, it is necessary. Haiti is quite ...

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