Subhead:Conservative MPs challenge Global Affairs officials as Ottawa prepares another assistance package for Cuba, where political detentions and alliances with authoritarian powers persist.#
Ottawa is planning to pull out the cheque book for Cuba despite mounting concerns about the regime’s political prisoners, foreign alliances and human rights abuses.
At a Commons committee this week, Global Affairs officials confirmed the federal government is preparing yet another humanitarian aid package, as reported by Blacklock’s.
.@GAC_Corporate will send undisclosed sum in taxpayers’ aid to Cuba as Havana envoy tells MPs fuel & food shortages have brought island to a standstill. https://t.co/JzfdRuwsk9 @EmbaCubaCanada @Lianne_Rood pic.twitter.com/lV5kUB9wiS
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) February 25, 2026
Director General of the Caribbean bureau, Mark Richardson, testified that Canada has provided an average of $6.5 million annually in development assistance to Cuba over the past seven years, totalling $6.84 million last year alone.
