Canada has provided support to Cuba for decades, but more can be done

Since the Cuban Revolution, Canada has taken a different policy approach than the United States, but more help is needed now when the pandemic's lingering effects are magnified by American sanctions.

On April 13, a group of organizations including Oxfam and the United Church of Canada sent a letter to International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan, left, and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, calling for an increase in Canadian humanitiarian aid to Cuba.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JIM HODGSON

April 27, 2023

An informal alliance of Canadian churches, trade unions, development agencies, and other civil society groups is encouraging the federal government to increase aid to Cuba in this time of exceptional need, and to press the United States to ease its sanctions.

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