Loading ...Loonie Left: Canada Provides Aid To Cuba Because “Orange Man Bad”
Canada’s federal government has confirmed it is directing aid to Cuba, a move that raises serious questions about whether Ottawa is making principled humanitarian decisions or simply reflexively positioning itself against Washington to score points with a domestic audience gripped by Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Cuba is not a misunderstood developing nation caught in Cold War crossfire. It is, by every credible international measure, one of the most repressive regimes on the planet.
- The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2024 Democracy Index ranks Cuba 135th out of 167 countries, firmly in the “authoritarian regime” category.
- Freedom House gives Cuba a score of 10 out of 100 in its 2025 report, classifying it flatly as “Not Free,” citing a one-party stranglehold, zero political pluralism, crushed dissent, and civil liberties that exist largely on paper.
- The V-Dem indices rank Cuba as the second-least-democratic country in all of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a democracy score of a dismal 0.178 out of one. In the Americas, Cuba’s only peers in the bottom tier are Venezuela and Nicaragua — a rogue’s gallery few governments would be proud to sustain.
The Cuban system isn’t complicated: The Communist Party is the sole legal political party. All organizing outside it is prohibited.