January 19, 2024 Dear Premier David Eby, We, as members of the Canadian Cuban Friendship Association (CCFA) Niagara, are aware of and pleased with your incredible public support as premier of our west coast province. We are aware of the challenges you face, along with all other premiers, in delivering quality healthcare to the people …
Category: Cuba
Letter to Premier of Manitoba
Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association (CCFA) Niagara January 10, 2024 The Honourable Wab Kinew, M.L.A., …
Letter to Liberal Party
Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association, …
Open Letter to NDP
January 10, 2024 Jagmeet Singh House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 and The New Democratic Party of Canada 300-279 Laurier West Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J9 Dear Mr. Singh and Sirs/Mesdames: Re: Canadian government policies toward Cuba Canada has a long-time supportive and special connection with Cuba that dates back to Prime …
Cuban Healthcare for Canada
Action Required of the Canadian Government to Seek Possible Solutions to Canada’s Medical Care Crisis Through Negotiations With Representatives of the Cuban health system – Resolution passed by the Niagara chapter of the Canadian Cuban Friendship Association (CCFA) WHEREAS, Canada has a crisis in healthcare delivery in many parts of the country; WHEREAS, There …
Cuban Pharmaceuticals
Action Requested of the Canadian government to Acquire Cuban Pharmaceuticals – Resolution passed by the Niagara chapter of the Canadian Cuban Friendship Association – January WHEREAS, Canada has a continuing need for COVID vaccines and other pharmaceuticals; WHEREAS, Canada has been dependent on U.S. big pharma and single sourced Pfizer and Moderna as a …
Responding to Cuban Dissidents
Shared with Public There is a number of organized dissident groups speaking out against Cuba’s Revolution and their Socialist government. People should be aware that many of the complainant voices they hear and read are supported and funded by the U.S. government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) which is an offshoot of the …
Wikipedia on Cuba
Wikipedia speaking on the topic of Cuban Democracy states, “It is a single-party state where political opposition is not permitted. The function of the party is different to that in liberal democracies. It does not propose candidates and is not allowed to influence elections.” At first reading I thought of this as a derogatory statement …
Don’t Judge a Country by the Name of its Government
Don’t Judge a Country by the Name of the Government. There is an old saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Repetitively Cuba is said to be a Communist government as if this is all that need be said to declare it a dictatorship to be shunned. A country and government should be judged …
CCFA Niagara Statement on Cuba
CUBA In 1959 Fidel Castro led a successful revolution that changed the face of Cuba and resonated around the world. Prior to the revolution Cuba was a largely backward, uneducated, racialized country, with a US puppet dictator and U.S. corporations in the form of Chiquita Banana, Imperial Oil and Bacardi Rum pretty much running the …