As the United Nations General Assembly gets under way in New York, Haiti is set to command attention not just from the United States, which is co-hosting a high-level donor event on Friday, but its neighbor to the north, Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be leading a discussion of a Haiti advisory group Wednesday on the sidelines of the massive world leaders’ summit in hopes of instilling a sense of urgency regarding the crisis-wrecked country and to discuss how the international community can help.
“We’re escalating our leadership and this is a signal that we take the situation very seriously and we’re following it very closely and that the international community needs to get together and support Haiti,” said Sébastien Carrière, Canada’s ambassador in Port-au-Prince.
