Check out this CBC story on Cuba. A handful of anti-revolutionary agitators are interviewed, and to no-one's surprise, they are miffed that Canada isn't doing more to stand up to authoritarians in Havana.
For over 60 years the US has used all available means to strangle the Cuban revolution, so that the benighted Cuban people can partake of the fruits of democracy and American friendship.
While the US has been busy putting the screws to Cuba, there is another country, only fifty miles to the east, that has enjoyed the warm embrace of American friendship throughout that time; Haiti. The people of Cuba enjoy a better standard of living, by any conceivable metric, in spite of sixty years of American sanctions, sabotage, and subversion, than the people of Haiti.
Insofar as Canada is an independent nation with its own foreign policy, and insofar as we put actual human rights ahead of currying favour in Washington, we should be denouncing the American campaign against Cuba, not cheering it on.
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