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To: Prime Minister Carney and Members of Parliament
HUMANITARIAN AID FOR CUBA
The Government of Canada must use every diplomatic and economic tool at its disposal to support the people of Cuba—including urgently delivering more humanitarian aid and fuel shipments to help alleviate the crisis.
Why is this important?
Donald Trump has intensified U.S. sanctions to choke off oil shipments to Cuba, tightening the embargo and pressuring other countries and companies not to supply the island with fuel. Because Cuba depends on imported oil to keep its power plants, transportation, and hospitals running, the crackdown has fueled sweeping blackouts, paralyzed transit, and disrupted food and medical supply chains. The impact falls hardest on ordinary Cubans: hospitals struggle to operate, emergency services stall, and families face worsening shortages of basic necessities.
When policies knowingly deprive civilians of electricity, healthcare, and food security, they cross from political pressure into collective punishment —undermining fundamental human rights.
When policies knowingly deprive civilians of electricity, healthcare, and food security, they cross from political pressure into collective punishment —undermining fundamental human rights.
For decades, our country Canada has supported Cuba’s right to determine its own future. and has rejected the punitive policies of the United States government. But the newest blockade imposed by the Trump administration has brought the country to a level of unprecedented hardship: the Cuban people are now facing a dire humanitarian crisis.
Canada’s silence and limited action in the face of this crisis is deeply disappointing. Our government must do far more.
Canada’s silence and limited action in the face of this crisis is deeply disappointing. Our government must do far more.