From our Bureau of Unusual Events in the Great White North with some assistance from our Bureau of Praiseworthy Quixotic Gestures
Only 19,545 Cubans live in Canada according to the country’s 2021 census. This means there are fewer Cubans in all of Canada than the number of Cubans who entered the U.S. last month (20,000 +). Nonetheless, some of those Cubans braved the cold and snow last Friday to stage a protest in Toronto outside Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office. Will this protest cool Canada’s shameful torrid love affair with Castro, Inc. ? Well . . . you know the answer . . . But you have to praise these Cubans for trying.
Abridged from The Epoch Times
A group of Cuban-Canadians gathered outside Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Toronto office on Friday at an event they said was to demonstrate solidarity with protesters in Cuba who took to the streets March 17 in protest against food shortages and power outages.
Nelson Taylor Sol, a member of “Cuban Canadians for a Democratic Cuba,” was among dozens who arrived at Ms. Freeland’s constituency office in downtown Toronto at about 3 p.m. local time on March 22.
Mr. Taylor Sol told The Epoch Times a day earlier that members of the group “question Canada’s foreign policy towards Cuba.”
“We point [to] the contradiction of propping up the same regime that’s sending military support to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin as we speak,” he said, referring to a letter he wrote to Ms. Freeland on behalf of the group.
“So, Canada is propping up a regime which in turn supports a Canadian-sanctioned regime.”
In a follow-up email to The Epoch Times the day after the event, Mr. Taylor Sol said his group did not manage to hand the letter personally to someone at Ms. Freeland’s office, as “nobody seemed to be inside,” so they slid it through the mail slot on the door.
Mr. Taylor Sol’s letter, viewed by The Epoch Times, says Ottawa has been “propping up” the Cuban regime for decades despite multiple attempts by Cuban-Canadians urging it to stop.
“For 65 long years, several generations of exiles have unsuccessfully questioned the status quo of Canada’s foreign policy towards Cuba, which in a nutshell can be described as utter indifference vis a vis the population, while pretending to be one of ‘constructive engagement,’” the letter said.
“That has been the case regardless of which party holds power,” it added.
The letter by the “Cuban Canadians for a Democratic Cuba” says Cuban authorities have been engaging in “ongoing interference and plotting against democracies of the region and elsewhere.” In an interview on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program in February 2022, Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, an exiled Cuban activist, said Cuba is a major hub for a worldwide totalitarian movement and its intelligence network has spread its influence throughout the Western Hemisphere.
“They’re [a] very considerable foe for the United States and the Western Hemisphere,” he told the host at the time.
The letter by the Cuban Canadians’ group urges Ms. Freeland to cut all possible means of support to Russia through Cuba.
Whole story HERE
More power to them, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Too many Canadians are clearly not right, so to speak.