(Ottawa) The military patrol aircraft that had been deployed in Haiti by Canada has completed its mission and is now returning home. He made two intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights in Haiti.
The federal government announced on Saturday that the CP-140 Aurora long-range patrol aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force was sent to Haiti to gather information on the activities of criminal groups.
The Minister of National Defense, Anita Anand, and her colleague from Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, then stressed in a press release that the deployment of this military aircraft illustrated Canada’s desire to provide assistance to the Haitian people.
Haiti is grappling with numerous crises, including the proliferation of violent acts carried out by criminal groups, a cholera epidemic and a political imbroglio.
Captain Graeme Scott, spokesman for the Canadian Armed Forces, said the plane made two reconnaissance flights in two days before heading back to Canada.
“The CP-140 has collected information that will allow the Canadian government to assess the situation in Haiti,” Scott said in an email to The Canadian Press.
“Now that the aircraft has completed collecting this information, it is on its way back to Canada. »
It was not immediately clear how this information will be used, but Haiti’s unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry has called for foreign military intervention.
Washington believes that Canada should lead such an intervention, but Haitians seem divided on this issue.