Cuba Cancels Kent Visit as Conservatives Stick to Guns

Published May 13, 2009

When former prime minister Jean Chrétien met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1998, the first item he put on the table was the release of political prisoners, but he did so discreetly and he chose his words carefully.

At the time, Mr. Chrétien was criticized for not using a speech he delivered in Havana—publicly broadcast on Cuban television—to forcefully call for human rights....