The Canadian government must end its support for a repressive, corrupt Haitian president devoid of constitutional legitimacy. (Photo: Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Feb 18, 2021
Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
It is time to change Canadian policy towards a nation born in struggle to liberate Africans from slavery.
The Canadian government must end its support for a repressive, corrupt Haitian president devoid of constitutional legitimacy. For the past two years Haitians have demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to Jovenel Moise with massive protests and general strikes calling for his departure from office.
Since February 7 Jovenel Moise has been occupying the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince in defiance of the overwhelming majority of the country's institutions. Moise's claim to another year on his mandate was rejected by the Superior Council of Judicial Power, Haitian Bar Federation and other constitutional authorities. In response to the opposition selecting a Supreme Court judge to head an interim government after his mandate expired, Moise arrested one and illegally dismissed three Supreme Court justices. The police were also sent to occupy the Supreme Court and repress those protesting, shooting two reporters covering the demonstrations. The country's judges have launched an unlimited strike to force Moise to respect the constitution.
Moise has ruled by decree since January 2020. After the mandates of most officials expired due to his failure to hold elections, Moise announced a plan to rewrite the constitution. Fair elections are unlikely under Moise's leadership as he recently pressured the entire electoral council to resign and then appointed new members unilaterally.
Having garnered fewer than 600,000 votes in a country of 11 million, Moise's legitimacy has always been weak. Since massive anti-corruption and anti-IMF protests erupted in mid-2018 Moise has become steadily more repressive. A recent presidential decree criminalized protest blockades as "terrorism" while another established a new intelligence agency with anonymous officers empowered to infiltrate and arrest anyone deemed to be engaging in 'subversive' acts or threatening 'state security'. In the worst documented case, the UN confirmed the Haitian government's culpability in a massacre of up to 71 civilians in the impoverished Port-au-Prince neighborhood of La Saline in mid-November 2018.
All this information is available to Canadian officials, however, they continue to fund and train a police force that has violently repressed anti-Moise protests. The Canadian ambassador in Haiti has repeatedly attended police functions all the while refusing to criticize their repression of protesters. On January 18 ambassador Stuart Savage met the controversial new head of police Leon Charles to discuss "strengthening the capacity of the police."
As part of the influential US, France, OAS, UN, Spain "Core Group" of foreign ambassadors in Port-au-Prince, Canadian officials have offered Moise important diplomatic support. On February 12 Foreign Minister Marc Garneau spoke with Haiti's de facto foreign minister. The post meeting statement announced plans for Haiti and Canada to co-host a forthcoming conference. The statement made no mention, however, of Moise extending his mandate, illegally firing Supreme Court judges, ruling by decree or criminalizing protests.
It's time for the Canadian government to stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti.
SIGNATORIES:
Noam Chomsky, author & Professor
Naomi Klein, author, Rutgers University
David Suzuki, Award winning geneticist/broadcaster
Paul Manly, Member of Parliament
Roger Waters, co-founder Pink Floyd
Stephen Lewis, Former UN ambassador
El Jones, poet and professor
Gabor Mate, author
Svend Robinson, former Member of Parliament
Libby Davies, former Member of Parliament
Jim Manly, former Member of Parliament
Will Prosper, filmmaker and human rights activist
Robyn Maynard, author Policing Black Lives
George Elliott Clarke, former Canadian Poet Laureate
Linda McQuaig, journalist & author
Francoise Boucard, former chair Haiti's National Truth and Justice Commission
Rinaldo Walcott, Professor and Writer
Judy Rebick, journalist
Frantz Voltaire, Editeur
Greg Grandin, Professor of History Yale University
Andre Michel, President ex-officio Les Artistes pour la Paix
Harsha Walia, activist/writer
Vijay Prashad, executive-director Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Kim Ives, editor Haiti Liberte
Anthony N. Morgan, racial justice lawyer
Andray Domise, journalist
Torq Campbell, musician (Stars)
Alain Deneault, philosophe
Peter Hallward, author of Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment
Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer, journalist and activist
Antonia Zerbisias, journalist/activist
Missy Nadege, Madame Boukman - Justice 4 Haiti
Jeb Sprague, author Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti
Brian Concannon, Executive Director of Project Blueprint.
Eva Manly, retired filmmaker, activist
Beatrice Lindstrom, Clinical Instructor, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School
John Clarke, Packer Visitor in Social Justice York University
Jord Samolesky, Propagandhi
Serge Bouchereau, activist
Sheila Cano, artist
Yves Engler, journalist
Jean Saint-Vil, journalist/Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Jennie-Laure Sully, Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Turenne Joseph, Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Frantz Andre, Comite d'action des personnes sans statut/Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Louise Leduc, Enseignante retraitee Cegep regional de Lanaudiere a Joliette
Syed Hussan, migrant workers alliance
Pierre Beaudet, editeur de la Plateforme altermondialiste, Montreal
Bianca Mugyenyi, Director Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Justin Podur, writer/academic
David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War
Derrick O'Keefe, writer, co-founder Ricochet
Stuart Hammond, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
John Philpot, international defense lawyer
Frederick Jones, Dawson College
Kevin Skerrett, union researcher
Gretchen Brown, lawyer
Normand Raymond, Certified Translator, Signer and Songer-Writer
Pierre Jasmin, Pianist
Victor Vaughan, activist
Ken Collier, activist
Claudia Chaufan, Associate Professor York
Jooneed Khan, journalist and human rights activist
Arnold August, author
Gary Engler, author
Stu Neatby, reporter
Scott Weinstein, activist
Courtney Kirkby, founder Tiger Lotus Coop
Greg Albo, York professor
Peter Eglin, Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Laurier University
Barry Weisleder,Federal Secretary, Socialist Action
Alan Freeman, Geopolitical Economy Research Group
Radhika Desai, Professor University of Manitoba
John Price, Professor
Travis Ross, co-editor Canada-Haiti Information Project
William Sloan, ex. refugee lawyer
Larry Hannant, historian and author
Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Richard Sanders, antiwar researcher, writer, activist
Stefan Christoff, Musician and community activist
Khaled Mouammar, Former Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Ed Lehman Regina Peace Council
Mark Haley, Kelowna Peace Group
Carol Foort, activist
Nino Pagliccia, Venezuelan-Canadian political analyst
Ken Stone, Treasurer, Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War
Aziz Fall, President Centre Internationaliste Ryerson Foundation Aubin
Donald Cuccioletta, Coordinator of Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme and Montreal Urban Left
Robert Ismael, CPAM 1410 Cabaret des idees
Antonio Artuso, Cercle Jacques Roumain
Andre Jacob, professeur retraite Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Kevin Pina, Haiti Information Project
Tracy Glynn, Solidarite Fredericton and lecturer at St. Thomas University
Tobin Haley, Solidarite Fredericton and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University
Aaron Mate, journalist
Glenn Michalchuk, Chair Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Western University
Marie Dimanche, founder Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Francoise Boucard, former chair Haiti's National Truth and Justice Commission
Louise Leduc, Enseignante retraitee Cegep regional de Lanaudiere a Joliette
Tamara Lorincz, fellow Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Andre Michel, President ex-officio Les Artistes pour la Paix
Monia Mazigh, PhD/author
Elizabeth Gilarowski, activist
Azeezah Kanji, legal academic and journalist
David Putt, aid worker
Elaine Briere, documentary filmmaker Haiti Betrayed
Karen Rodman, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
David Webster, Professor
Raoul Paul, co-editor Canada-Haiti Information Project
Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report
John McMurtry, Professor & Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
It is time to change Canadian policy towards a nation born in struggle to liberate Africans from slavery.
The Canadian government must end its support for a repressive, corrupt Haitian president devoid of constitutional legitimacy. For the past two years Haitians have demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to Jovenel Moise with massive protests and general strikes calling for his departure from office.
Since February 7 Jovenel Moise has been occupying the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince in defiance of the overwhelming majority of the country's institutions. Moise's claim to another year on his mandate was rejected by the Superior Council of Judicial Power, Haitian Bar Federation and other constitutional authorities. In response to the opposition selecting a Supreme Court judge to head an interim government after his mandate expired, Moise arrested one and illegally dismissed three Supreme Court justices. The police were also sent to occupy the Supreme Court and repress those protesting, shooting two reporters covering the demonstrations. The country's judges have launched an unlimited strike to force Moise to respect the constitution.
Moise has ruled by decree since January 2020. After the mandates of most officials expired due to his failure to hold elections, Moise announced a plan to rewrite the constitution. Fair elections are unlikely under Moise's leadership as he recently pressured the entire electoral council to resign and then appointed new members unilaterally.
Having garnered fewer than 600,000 votes in a country of 11 million, Moise's legitimacy has always been weak. Since massive anti-corruption and anti-IMF protests erupted in mid-2018 Moise has become steadily more repressive. A recent presidential decree criminalized protest blockades as "terrorism" while another established a new intelligence agency with anonymous officers empowered to infiltrate and arrest anyone deemed to be engaging in 'subversive' acts or threatening 'state security'. In the worst documented case, the UN confirmed the Haitian government's culpability in a massacre of up to 71 civilians in the impoverished Port-au-Prince neighborhood of La Saline in mid-November 2018.
All this information is available to Canadian officials, however, they continue to fund and train a police force that has violently repressed anti-Moise protests. The Canadian ambassador in Haiti has repeatedly attended police functions all the while refusing to criticize their repression of protesters. On January 18 ambassador Stuart Savage met the controversial new head of police Leon Charles to discuss "strengthening the capacity of the police."
As part of the influential US, France, OAS, UN, Spain "Core Group" of foreign ambassadors in Port-au-Prince, Canadian officials have offered Moise important diplomatic support. On February 12 Foreign Minister Marc Garneau spoke with Haiti's de facto foreign minister. The post meeting statement announced plans for Haiti and Canada to co-host a forthcoming conference. The statement made no mention, however, of Moise extending his mandate, illegally firing Supreme Court judges, ruling by decree or criminalizing protests.
It's time for the Canadian government to stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti.
SIGNATORIES:
Noam Chomsky, author & Professor
Naomi Klein, author, Rutgers University
David Suzuki, Award winning geneticist/broadcaster
Paul Manly, Member of Parliament
Roger Waters, co-founder Pink Floyd
Stephen Lewis, Former UN ambassador
El Jones, poet and professor
Gabor Mate, author
Svend Robinson, former Member of Parliament
Libby Davies, former Member of Parliament
Jim Manly, former Member of Parliament
Will Prosper, filmmaker and human rights activist
Robyn Maynard, author Policing Black Lives
George Elliott Clarke, former Canadian Poet Laureate
Linda McQuaig, journalist & author
Francoise Boucard, former chair Haiti's National Truth and Justice Commission
Rinaldo Walcott, Professor and Writer
Judy Rebick, journalist
Frantz Voltaire, Editeur
Greg Grandin, Professor of History Yale University
Andre Michel, President ex-officio Les Artistes pour la Paix
Harsha Walia, activist/writer
Vijay Prashad, executive-director Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Kim Ives, editor Haiti Liberte
Anthony N. Morgan, racial justice lawyer
Andray Domise, journalist
Torq Campbell, musician (Stars)
Alain Deneault, philosophe
Peter Hallward, author of Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment
Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer, journalist and activist
Antonia Zerbisias, journalist/activist
Missy Nadege, Madame Boukman - Justice 4 Haiti
Jeb Sprague, author Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti
Brian Concannon, Executive Director of Project Blueprint.
Eva Manly, retired filmmaker, activist
Beatrice Lindstrom, Clinical Instructor, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School
John Clarke, Packer Visitor in Social Justice York University
Jord Samolesky, Propagandhi
Serge Bouchereau, activist
Sheila Cano, artist
Yves Engler, journalist
Jean Saint-Vil, journalist/Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Jennie-Laure Sully, Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Turenne Joseph, Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Frantz Andre, Comite d'action des personnes sans statut/Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Louise Leduc, Enseignante retraitee Cegep regional de Lanaudiere a Joliette
Syed Hussan, migrant workers alliance
Pierre Beaudet, editeur de la Plateforme altermondialiste, Montreal
Bianca Mugyenyi, Director Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Justin Podur, writer/academic
David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War
Derrick O'Keefe, writer, co-founder Ricochet
Stuart Hammond, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
John Philpot, international defense lawyer
Frederick Jones, Dawson College
Kevin Skerrett, union researcher
Gretchen Brown, lawyer
Normand Raymond, Certified Translator, Signer and Songer-Writer
Pierre Jasmin, Pianist
Victor Vaughan, activist
Ken Collier, activist
Claudia Chaufan, Associate Professor York
Jooneed Khan, journalist and human rights activist
Arnold August, author
Gary Engler, author
Stu Neatby, reporter
Scott Weinstein, activist
Courtney Kirkby, founder Tiger Lotus Coop
Greg Albo, York professor
Peter Eglin, Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Laurier University
Barry Weisleder,Federal Secretary, Socialist Action
Alan Freeman, Geopolitical Economy Research Group
Radhika Desai, Professor University of Manitoba
John Price, Professor
Travis Ross, co-editor Canada-Haiti Information Project
William Sloan, ex. refugee lawyer
Larry Hannant, historian and author
Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Richard Sanders, antiwar researcher, writer, activist
Stefan Christoff, Musician and community activist
Khaled Mouammar, Former Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Ed Lehman Regina Peace Council
Mark Haley, Kelowna Peace Group
Carol Foort, activist
Nino Pagliccia, Venezuelan-Canadian political analyst
Ken Stone, Treasurer, Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War
Aziz Fall, President Centre Internationaliste Ryerson Foundation Aubin
Donald Cuccioletta, Coordinator of Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme and Montreal Urban Left
Robert Ismael, CPAM 1410 Cabaret des idees
Antonio Artuso, Cercle Jacques Roumain
Andre Jacob, professeur retraite Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Kevin Pina, Haiti Information Project
Tracy Glynn, Solidarite Fredericton and lecturer at St. Thomas University
Tobin Haley, Solidarite Fredericton and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University
Aaron Mate, journalist
Glenn Michalchuk, Chair Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Western University
Marie Dimanche, founder Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Francoise Boucard, former chair Haiti's National Truth and Justice Commission
Louise Leduc, Enseignante retraitee Cegep regional de Lanaudiere a Joliette
Tamara Lorincz, fellow Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Andre Michel, President ex-officio Les Artistes pour la Paix
Monia Mazigh, PhD/author
Elizabeth Gilarowski, activist
Azeezah Kanji, legal academic and journalist
David Putt, aid worker
Elaine Briere, documentary filmmaker Haiti Betrayed
Karen Rodman, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
David Webster, Professor
Raoul Paul, co-editor Canada-Haiti Information Project
Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report
John McMurtry, Professor & Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
It is time to change Canadian policy towards a nation born in struggle to liberate Africans from slavery.
The Canadian government must end its support for a repressive, corrupt Haitian president devoid of constitutional legitimacy. For the past two years Haitians have demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to Jovenel Moise with massive protests and general strikes calling for his departure from office.
Since February 7 Jovenel Moise has been occupying the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince in defiance of the overwhelming majority of the country's institutions. Moise's claim to another year on his mandate was rejected by the Superior Council of Judicial Power, Haitian Bar Federation and other constitutional authorities. In response to the opposition selecting a Supreme Court judge to head an interim government after his mandate expired, Moise arrested one and illegally dismissed three Supreme Court justices. The police were also sent to occupy the Supreme Court and repress those protesting, shooting two reporters covering the demonstrations. The country's judges have launched an unlimited strike to force Moise to respect the constitution.
Moise has ruled by decree since January 2020. After the mandates of most officials expired due to his failure to hold elections, Moise announced a plan to rewrite the constitution. Fair elections are unlikely under Moise's leadership as he recently pressured the entire electoral council to resign and then appointed new members unilaterally.
Having garnered fewer than 600,000 votes in a country of 11 million, Moise's legitimacy has always been weak. Since massive anti-corruption and anti-IMF protests erupted in mid-2018 Moise has become steadily more repressive. A recent presidential decree criminalized protest blockades as "terrorism" while another established a new intelligence agency with anonymous officers empowered to infiltrate and arrest anyone deemed to be engaging in 'subversive' acts or threatening 'state security'. In the worst documented case, the UN confirmed the Haitian government's culpability in a massacre of up to 71 civilians in the impoverished Port-au-Prince neighborhood of La Saline in mid-November 2018.
All this information is available to Canadian officials, however, they continue to fund and train a police force that has violently repressed anti-Moise protests. The Canadian ambassador in Haiti has repeatedly attended police functions all the while refusing to criticize their repression of protesters. On January 18 ambassador Stuart Savage met the controversial new head of police Leon Charles to discuss "strengthening the capacity of the police."
As part of the influential US, France, OAS, UN, Spain "Core Group" of foreign ambassadors in Port-au-Prince, Canadian officials have offered Moise important diplomatic support. On February 12 Foreign Minister Marc Garneau spoke with Haiti's de facto foreign minister. The post meeting statement announced plans for Haiti and Canada to co-host a forthcoming conference. The statement made no mention, however, of Moise extending his mandate, illegally firing Supreme Court judges, ruling by decree or criminalizing protests.
It's time for the Canadian government to stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti.
SIGNATORIES:
Noam Chomsky, author & Professor
Naomi Klein, author, Rutgers University
David Suzuki, Award winning geneticist/broadcaster
Paul Manly, Member of Parliament
Roger Waters, co-founder Pink Floyd
Stephen Lewis, Former UN ambassador
El Jones, poet and professor
Gabor Mate, author
Svend Robinson, former Member of Parliament
Libby Davies, former Member of Parliament
Jim Manly, former Member of Parliament
Will Prosper, filmmaker and human rights activist
Robyn Maynard, author Policing Black Lives
George Elliott Clarke, former Canadian Poet Laureate
Linda McQuaig, journalist & author
Francoise Boucard, former chair Haiti's National Truth and Justice Commission
Rinaldo Walcott, Professor and Writer
Judy Rebick, journalist
Frantz Voltaire, Editeur
Greg Grandin, Professor of History Yale University
Andre Michel, President ex-officio Les Artistes pour la Paix
Harsha Walia, activist/writer
Vijay Prashad, executive-director Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Kim Ives, editor Haiti Liberte
Anthony N. Morgan, racial justice lawyer
Andray Domise, journalist
Torq Campbell, musician (Stars)
Alain Deneault, philosophe
Peter Hallward, author of Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment
Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer, journalist and activist
Antonia Zerbisias, journalist/activist
Missy Nadege, Madame Boukman - Justice 4 Haiti
Jeb Sprague, author Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti
Brian Concannon, Executive Director of Project Blueprint.
Eva Manly, retired filmmaker, activist
Beatrice Lindstrom, Clinical Instructor, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School
John Clarke, Packer Visitor in Social Justice York University
Jord Samolesky, Propagandhi
Serge Bouchereau, activist
Sheila Cano, artist
Yves Engler, journalist
Jean Saint-Vil, journalist/Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Jennie-Laure Sully, Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Turenne Joseph, Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Frantz Andre, Comite d'action des personnes sans statut/Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Louise Leduc, Enseignante retraitee Cegep regional de Lanaudiere a Joliette
Syed Hussan, migrant workers alliance
Pierre Beaudet, editeur de la Plateforme altermondialiste, Montreal
Bianca Mugyenyi, Director Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Justin Podur, writer/academic
David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War
Derrick O'Keefe, writer, co-founder Ricochet
Stuart Hammond, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
John Philpot, international defense lawyer
Frederick Jones, Dawson College
Kevin Skerrett, union researcher
Gretchen Brown, lawyer
Normand Raymond, Certified Translator, Signer and Songer-Writer
Pierre Jasmin, Pianist
Victor Vaughan, activist
Ken Collier, activist
Claudia Chaufan, Associate Professor York
Jooneed Khan, journalist and human rights activist
Arnold August, author
Gary Engler, author
Stu Neatby, reporter
Scott Weinstein, activist
Courtney Kirkby, founder Tiger Lotus Coop
Greg Albo, York professor
Peter Eglin, Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Laurier University
Barry Weisleder,Federal Secretary, Socialist Action
Alan Freeman, Geopolitical Economy Research Group
Radhika Desai, Professor University of Manitoba
John Price, Professor
Travis Ross, co-editor Canada-Haiti Information Project
William Sloan, ex. refugee lawyer
Larry Hannant, historian and author
Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Richard Sanders, antiwar researcher, writer, activist
Stefan Christoff, Musician and community activist
Khaled Mouammar, Former Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Ed Lehman Regina Peace Council
Mark Haley, Kelowna Peace Group
Carol Foort, activist
Nino Pagliccia, Venezuelan-Canadian political analyst
Ken Stone, Treasurer, Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War
Aziz Fall, President Centre Internationaliste Ryerson Foundation Aubin
Donald Cuccioletta, Coordinator of Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme and Montreal Urban Left
Robert Ismael, CPAM 1410 Cabaret des idees
Antonio Artuso, Cercle Jacques Roumain
Andre Jacob, professeur retraite Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Kevin Pina, Haiti Information Project
Tracy Glynn, Solidarite Fredericton and lecturer at St. Thomas University
Tobin Haley, Solidarite Fredericton and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University
Aaron Mate, journalist
Glenn Michalchuk, Chair Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Western University
Marie Dimanche, founder Solidarite Quebec-Haiti
Francoise Boucard, former chair Haiti's National Truth and Justice Commission
Louise Leduc, Enseignante retraitee Cegep regional de Lanaudiere a Joliette
Tamara Lorincz, fellow Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Andre Michel, President ex-officio Les Artistes pour la Paix
Monia Mazigh, PhD/author
Elizabeth Gilarowski, activist
Azeezah Kanji, legal academic and journalist
David Putt, aid worker
Elaine Briere, documentary filmmaker Haiti Betrayed
Karen Rodman, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
David Webster, Professor
Raoul Paul, co-editor Canada-Haiti Information Project
Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report
John McMurtry, Professor & Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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