The Government of Canada, the Governments of CARICOM Nations, the European Union, Mexico, and All Nations Committed to Humanitarian Law

From: Concerned Citizens of Canada and the World

THE CRISIS
Cuba is experiencing one of the most severe humanitarian emergencies in its modern history. Hospitals are operating without adequate medicine, fuel, or basic supplies. Incubators have been shut down. Elderly people are dying waiting for medications that trade restrictions prevent from arriving. Food shortages are widespread and deepening.

Respected international observers have compared conditions to a siege: suffering without the visibility of a conventional conflict. The Cuban people are enduring what many are calling "Gaza without bombs."

Cuba's deep partnerships with Caribbean nations, including Jamaica, where over 500 Cuban doctors staff rural hospitals and clinics and save lives daily, make this crisis a regional emergency and not a distant one.

WHAT WE ARE ASKING
We call on Canada and like-minded nations to take the following actions:

1. Convene an Emergency Multilateral Forum: Just as allied nations rapidly coordinated a united response to defend sovereignty over Greenland, Canada should lead or co-sponsor an urgent international forum. This forum would bring together CARICOM, the EU, Latin America, and other democratic nations to formally address the Cuba humanitarian crisis, speak with a unified voice, and push for a humane re-evaluation of current U.S. economic sanctions policy.

2. Launch an Emergency Humanitarian Airlift and Supply Mission: Canada and partner nations must treat this as the full-scale humanitarian emergency it is. With an estimated 89% of Cuba's population of over 10 million people at risk, incremental aid is not enough. We call for an immediate, coordinated emergency humanitarian mission, comparable in urgency to disaster relief operations, delivering fuel, food, medicine, and medical equipment without delay.

3. Formally Name This a Humanitarian Emergency: We call on the Government of Canada to formally recognize the situation in Cuba as a humanitarian emergency and to advocate within international bodies, including the UN General Assembly, for suspension of measures that demonstrably harm civilian populations.

4. Protect Medical Partnerships: Nations that benefit from Cuban medical cooperation, particularly Jamaica and other CARICOM states, must advocate loudly and concretely for the people whose doctors serve their own communities. Silence is not a neutral position.

WHY NOW
Sanctions that were designed as political pressure have become, in practice, a mechanism of civilian suffering. Babies, grandparents, and ordinary people bear the cost of geopolitical disputes they did not choose.

Canada has historically stood for multilateralism, human dignity, and the rule of international law. This is a moment to lead and not to wait.

History will remember which side governments stood on.

Sign this petition to demand that Canada convene an emergency coalition, launch an emergency humanitarian mission, and use its voice on the world stage for the people of Cuba.

This petition will be submitted to the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada, Global Affairs Canada, and the CARICOM Secretariat. We will also share it with allied governments and international media.