May, 24, 2012

Measuring Haiti's position on Canada's priority list

Large aid commitments have been made, but Embassy asks Canada's man in Port-au-Prince what else has really changed?

Published July 28, 2010

Canada and Haiti established diplomatic relations in 1954. Over the intervening 56 years, the Caribbean nation has popped on and off the Canadian foreign policy radar screen—generally when a crisis or disaster has struck.

Since Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in 2004 as Haitian president, Canada has had a sizeable presence in the country. For the past few years it has spent an average of about...

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