The federal government has shed little light on their mission, except that they’ll concentrate their work near the capital Port\u002Dau\u002DPrince.
What’s less clear is how two small, relatively slow and lightly armed Canadian naval ships just deployed to Haiti can help alleviate its troubles — troubles that for the most part exist on land, not at sea.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“There could be political critiques about how much does that help, especially given that the real issue is the gang violence, particularly the carving up of the capital city,” he said. “This is kind of a middling route between doing nothing and wanting to go in and actually say … ‘We’re going to organize some sort of unilateral or multilateral security force.’”Haiti is nothing if not a violent country at the moment.
Ariel Henry, the provisional, unelected prime minister has called for outside military help but — with a history of failed foreign interventions — no major power has stepped forward to lead such a mission. They have little room to pack humanitarian supplies, no medical facility to speak of and no helicopter pad or hangar.Article content
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