by Frances Martel
The government of radical leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent a Canadian warship to visit Havana, Cuba, this weekend, a move detractors told Breitbart News on Monday is “morally and strategically unjustifiable” given the Castro regime’s close ties to Canada’s enemies.
“I consider this decision a ratification of the failure and inconsistency of the Prime Minister’s foreign policy on Cuba,” Michael Lima Cuadra, the director of the Canadian human rights organization Democratic Spaces, told Breitbart News.
Democratic Spaces, founded by the Cuban-Canadian researcher, focuses on pressuring the traditionally Cuba-friendly Canadian government to confront and condemn the over half-century of human rights atrocities the Communist Party has committed and continues to do so against its people.
“Cuba is more repressive today than decades ago and has the highest number of political prisoners in the Americas and its inner power circle actively collaborates with regimes like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s in the asymmetric war against Ukraine (in its propaganda efforts, diplomatically and militarily),” Lima Cuadra observed.
Canadian Joint Operations Command confirmed on June 12 that the Canadian Navy would send the HMCS Margaret Brooke to Havana “in recognition of the long-standing bilateral relationship between Canada and Cuba.”
Marking the Royal Canadian Navy’s first visit to Havana since 2016, HMCS Margaret Brooke will dock at Havana as it begins its return sail after a successful deployment in the Caribbean basin. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/ghvT39YiXF
— Canadian Joint Operations Command (@CJOC_COIC) June 12, 2024
The Cuban government, in its 65th year under the control of the draconian Castro family, staged a welcoming event on June 14 for the ship, which state television described as an “opportunity to celebrate and reinforce the bilateral relationship.”
“The presence of the fleet at the capital of the largest of the Antilles is a sign of the quality of the bilateral ties of cooperation on the 50th anniversary of their establishment,” the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, Granma, proclaimed on Saturday.
The newspaper quoted Canada’s ambassador to Havana, Geoff Gartshore, calling his presence at the arrival of the ship a “great privilege for us.”
“We are very grateful for the warm welcome to the fleet,” he reportedly added.
The visit prompted widespread outrage among Canada’s conservatives, who noted that Trudeau has prioritized supporting Ukraine against the ongoing invasion of its territory by Russia, while Cuba has actively supported Moscow and has reportedly swindled young men into fighting in that war theater.
“While our troops are starved of resources, Trudeau spends defence budget sending a Canadian naval ship to Cuba alongside the Russian navy to honour Cuba’s brutal communist government,” the head of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, said in a statement this weekend, “proving he wasn’t kidding when he said he admires communist dictatorships. Reckless, radical & dangerous.”
The Conservatives’ foreign policy chief, lawmaker Michael Chong, emphasized that “Cuba and Russia are not allies of Canada, noting that Trudeau has publicly expressed admiration for late dictator and mass murderer Fidel Castro.
full story and video at https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/06/18/morally-and-strategically-unjustifiable-trudeaus-canada-sends-warship-to-cuba/
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