Armed members of the G9 and Family gang stand guard at their roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 11, 2024.
Canadians have been asking CBC News how — and why — this country is involved in the international response to the current state of anarchy and widespread gang violence in Haiti. The answers are complicated — because Canada's involvement is much more limited than it might appear.Armed members of the G9 and Family gang stand guard at their roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Monday, March 11, 2024.
But unlike Jean Chrétien, who turned down Washington flat when asked to contribute troops to the invasion of Iraq, Trudeau chose to run out the clock.to look into the possibility of a mission. It sent aircraft to fly over Port-au-Prince and contribute intelligence to the Haitian National Police.
"We believe very strongly that Haitian institutions themselves have to play the leadership role," Rae said at a CARICOM summit in the Bahamas last year. "We don't think it works for Canada or any other country to substitute itself for institutions that should be able to do the job."Trudeau and Rae often have implied that Haiti's leaders have failed to live up to their own responsibilities — a view widely shared by Haitians themselves.
Fortunately for Canada, at that point African and Caribbean countries began to express a willingness to step up and take on the mission themselves.All of which brings up another question a lot of Canadians have been asking CBC News about Haiti — why isn't Canada sending peacekeepers, as it has in the past?
A very small number of RCMP officers are deployed to Haiti now, mostly in training roles. Their number fluctuates; the terms of the deployment allow for up to 45 Mounties to be in Haiti at a time, but their current complement numbers in the single digits. A resident walks past a National Police officer guarding the empty National Penitentiary after a small fire erupted inside the jail in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday, March 14, 2024. This is the same prison that armed gangs stormed late March 2, allowing hundreds of inmates to escape.
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