Justin Trudeau and Denis Coderre do not Speak for Haiti: Listen to Haitians!

From: Jean Saint-Vil jafrikayiti@hotmail.com

As I try vainly to fall asleep this evening, the emergency debate at the Canadian House of Commons, broadcasted live by CPAC, compels me to say a few things:


1) Contrary to what many MPs kept repeating all evening, Haitians are not asking for a recount of ballots but to annul the foreign-funded, lead and supervised November 28, 2010 mascarade and organize true elections in Haiti. This pattern of ignoring Haitian voices, paying lip service to "democracy" while propping up undemocratic forces in Haiti is what got Canada involved into this mess in the first place. Much more important than saving face, we need and must focus on saving HUMAN LIVES! It is not too late but a serious paradigm shift must occur in Canadian policy towards Haiti. See "The Ottawa Initiative on Haiti" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Initiative

2) Disturbingly, I note that many key questions were never answered during this so-called "debate". For instance what is the exact breakdown, nature and use of the many millions of dollars the Canadian Government claims to have mobilized for Haiti? How much came from the truly generous response of citizens vs the Government? These key questions remained unanswered. Another related question is the actual identity of organizations that received and holds control over the funds collected in the name of Haitians. How many of thesse organizations are lead and controlled by Haitians and what percentage of the funds did they receive, if any? Hopefully, journalists will seek answers to these important questions. It is noteworthy that the Haitian Red Cross still doesn't have the ability to collect funds directly, as far as its newly created website suggests http://www.croixrouge.ht/

3) Frankly, I found it simply repulsive that many politicians, including Justin Trudeau, appeared to be using the opportunity to campaign. Will there ever be an opportunity for Haitian-Canadian voices to be heard in the official "debate"?

For whatever it is worth, here is what this one Haitian-Canadian has been attempting, as part of efforts Haitians are desperately deploying worldwide to speak for themselves:

What is Canada Doing in Haiti?
The “Ottawa Initiative on Haiti”: Humanist Peacekeeping or…?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13280

How Can the 2010 Electoral Impasse be Resolved in Haiti ? (CPAC VIDEO Interview - Dec 8, 2010)
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&pagetype=vod&hl=e&clipID=4868

See also:

" When we say democracy we have to mean what we say" - Exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Nov 2010 interview in South-Africa
http://canadahaitiaction.ca/content/interview-president-jean-bertrand-aristide-nicolas-rossier


Aide internationale en Haïti: une terre de liberté aux mains de la corruption

par Julie Lévesque
http://www.mondialisation.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18451


For other voices of Haitians speaking for themselves in Kreyòl, English, French,...see also:
www.jafrikayiti.com


Here is how one Haitian-American colleague is trying to break through a similar game of smokes and mirrors at play south of the border... followed by the urgent letter I sent to then Governor General Michaelle Jean, a few days after the earthquake to suggest real tangible action to REPAIR our native Haiti.



Haiti : Here’s the Will of the People
by Ezili Danto posted on Saturday, 11 December 2010, LA Progressive | http://bit.ly/ehMbyN

By the time United States policymakers in Haiti are finished playing with Haiti, they will hang Preval out to dry, ignore the process that was not inclusive, not fair, not free even before one ballot was cast; ignore that most of the candidates asked for the (s)election to be annulled by midday of the farce, their voters then stopped voting – and go on with their farce. But with Manigat and Martelly. I think that’s most likely what they will do. They’ve already set it up.


Everyone is supposed to forget the cast and un-casted ballots we saw all strewn around; the untold numbers of voters with ID cards unable to vote; those who couldn’t find their polling places; video evidence of ballot stuffing and children playing around in the piles of ballots. There’s no unco-opted Haitian voice high enough in the Western power citadels to effectively point out that Haiti’s frustrated young are using the Martelly vehicle to drive their frustration, their discontent somewhere.


Even if it’s over-the-cliff with Martelly in the crumbled palace driving seat. The marginalized, totally disenfranchised have died a thousand deaths. What’s another? Haiti has suffered through two Bush coup d’etats, Clinton’s famine, the apocalyptic earthquake, the charity organizations enriching themselves with the earthquake donations, a hurricane, over a million still in tarp camps nearly a year later and imported UN cholera. (See also, Scientists Trace Origin of Recent Cholera Epidemic in Haiti .)


In our shallow, narcissistic, celebrity-driven globalized pop culture, the novice Martelly is merely a tool to be used by those “more schooled in the patterns of privilege and domination” than any self-serving Haiti politician could ever dream to be. Martelly is the valve that releases accumulated surface pressure while reinforcing the “violent Haitian” narrative. Brilliant US/Euro move. A no-brainer. Bottom line, once the US Embassy is done manipulating, its so-called November 28 election will count.


I’d really like to be wrong, to believe that Haiti’s beleaguered people will sidestep the UN/US use of Manigat and Martelly to divide the initial block of 12, calling for annulment. That the Haitian people will not play into the hands of the enemy; will have enough strength left to continue demanding for the annulment of this charade even if Martelly is put back in the run-off. That they won’t take Martelly’s re-inclusion as a victory, fall for the ol’ okey doke; won’t allow this latest disaster, the disaster elections, to help push through a Haiti Clinton/Oligarchy cohort. Except when fairy tales end, reality steps into view.

This is the how they’ve set it up to resolve....

Read full article here: http://www.forumhaiti.com/haiti-politique-f3/haiti-here-is-the-will-of-the-people-t10264.htm

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LETTER TO GOVERNOR GENERAL MICHAELLE JEAN

Ottawa, January 18, 2010

Onè Governor General Michaelle Jean

See Video plea at: http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/back-home/#clip256487

This is an urgent plea to you, as Governor General of Canada, daughter of Haiti, once a citizen of France who is married to well-known and respected French intellectual filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond.

Both of you, dear compatriots, must immediately use your power and skills to convince French President Nicolas Sarkozy of the urgent necessity for the Republic of France to return the $40 Billion (U.S) it has ransomed at gunpoint from the Republic of Haiti between 1825 and 1947. The amount of 90 million gold Francs was collected by the FRENCH STATE, in the name of the white French men and women as compensation for their claims of "lost property”. Said property being our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers who had survived 312 years of the most horrific crime against humanity ever recorded in human history – the MAAFA.

In order to make this payment successive Haitian governments had to take drastic measures like cutting down our forests, closing rural schools and borrowing money at exorbitant rates from the slavery-built powers of the time such as the United States of North America.

The $40 Billion (US) ransom must be returned directly to the HAITIAN STATE from which it was taken at gunpoint. This outrageous example of STATE SPONSORED armed robbery involves legal institutions that existed and still exist today.

Haiti needs to build the infrastructure it never had an opportunity to build. To this effect we, justice conscious people of all races, creed and political persuasion are mobilizing restlessly until the Haitian People - through the legitimate representatives it has established on its own- receives what was stolen from it. Not a cent of this ransom repayment must go to the horde of foreign-controlled organizations that are experts at collecting overhead in the name of the impoverished people of Haiti. While the condition of abject poverty which prevails for the Black People of Haiti since 1499, when our first ancestors landed on the island, continues to blow in our faces, those claiming to be "aiding" said people are the ones getting richer every day with the "aid" they are managing in our name. A situation that our First Nations brothers and sisters understand all too well, whether it is in Nunavut (Canada), Australia or South Africa. The hypocrisy must end so that genuine human brotherhood and sisterhood can flourish.

This heavy burden is yours to carry my sister. We love you and encourage you to be inspired by the spirit of Sanite Belair, Defilé and Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur.

Fòk nou tout mete devwa nou opwòp! Se Dessalines k ap mande rgleman!

Ak anpil respè,

Frè ou:

Jafrikayiti (Jean Saint-Vil)
Ottawa, Canada



More about the Charles X Ransom at:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restitution4haiti/

A Giant Step for Mankind – Made in Haïti
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14726




Jafrikayiti
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