OTTAWA - Canada has pledged $60 million to help Haiti fight back brazen gangs, with most of the funding contingent on the United Nations supporting an American plan to expand a police mission into a "gang-suppression force."
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has announced $20 million for maritime security in the Caribbean aimed at stopping the flow of arms and drugs in and through Haiti.
Another $40 million would support the Trump administration's proposal for a gang-suppression force that would replace an existing UN police mission, but only if the UN backs the idea.
Anand is co-hosting an event today with her Haitian counterpart at the UN aimed at finding a solution to the violent instability that has consumed Haiti since 2021.
At the House foreign affairs committee today, MPs who