Ottawa Initiative on Haiti

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On January 31st, 2003, a meeting was held in Montreal. In Canada in Haiti, Engler and Fenton write:

From January 31 – February 1, 2003, Canada's Secretary of State for Latin America and La Francophonie, Denis Paradis, played host to a high-level rountable meeting dubbed "The Ottawa Initiative on Haiti." In a manner that would foreshadow future meetings hosted by the Canadian government, no representatives of Haiti's elected government were involved. Indeed, the Ottawa Initiative now appears as a dry run at the trusteeship that was to come. Otto Reich, then Bush's controversial appointee as Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, attended the Ottawa meetings. OAS representative [Luigi] Einuadi was there as well.

Key points

• Paradis leaked information to journalist Michael Vastel, who wrote about the meeting in March, 2003 in L'Actualité
• More information was later leaked to the CBC who interviewed Paradis on March 22nd, 2005.

Some links:

• Wikipedia: Ottawa Initiative, Denis Paradis, Otto Reich
• Haiti Progrès, and another
• Cooperative Research
• Another article by Fenton
• GlobalResearch.ca