Canada’s Haiti plan a mixed bag of nobility and uselessness

Given that the crisis in Haiti is violent anarchy on the streets, dispatching two tiny Navy patrol vessels to sit off the coast of that island nation makes absolutely no sense.

HMCS Glace Bay sails through the Maniitsoq Fjord during Operation Nanook on Aug. 14, 2020. The federal government announced on Feb. 16 that HMCS Glace Bay and HMCS Moncton will be deployed to patrol off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. DND photograph courtesy of Corporal David Veldman

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 20, 2023

OTTAWA—On Feb. 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada would be deploying two navy vessels to Haiti in light of the worsening security crisis in the country.

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