75 Replies to “Justin’s Cuban family taking a financial hit.”

  2. The CBC’s Evan Dyer must be a quirky guy — a political-moderate in a swamp of ultra-corrupt woke culture. I do not know how he can keep sane. Or stay employed.

    1. Have you considered, he is not so moderate, and you are the one being snowed.

      The same question; “if Poilievre is actually so principled, why is he the sole one allowed to stay?”

      1. Sadly, people think that there still exists some correlation between what a politician says in his rhetoric, and what he actually does with power.

  5. I don’t have a problem with Canadians visiting Cuba. A website that links to twitter, the cbc and facebook shouldn’t either. The difference between those outfits and Cuba is that those outfits are screwing Canadians over, and Cuba is not. Canadians visiting Cuba actually make life easier for the poor folk living there.
    The hypocrisy inherent in vilifying a man for visiting Cuba while at the same time paying for cable or satellite TV, using facebook and twitter, linking to the CBC without using an archive, etc, is beyond the pale.

    2. I went to Cuba once . The bar keep ask us to buy some cooking oil for his family at tourist store . We take a couple gallons of Oil to his family living in tar paper hut. The father explained to me how we keep the commies in power . Thanked us for Cooking Oil but if you want to help don’t come here till we are free. Free people don’t tie 45 gallon drums to old cars and try and cross 100 miles of shark invested ocean to try and reach the U.S. Canada playing nice with the Cuban government is the most disgusting think we have done as a nation.

      1. Canada, the US, etc, should shit or get off the pot. Removing what little wealth is left from the Cuban people does very little, its an empty gesture, like sanctions against Russia.
        If Canada or the US gave a rat’s ass about the people there, they would have armed the protesters and turned the protests into an insurgency, but real foreign policy that isn’t just empty gestures made to placate the masses or brazen money-grabs died in the 1970s.

        1. Sure, let finance a revolution.

          Once the Cuban people clean out the commies we can turn our efforts on Russia and then China.

    3. Try to tell a Canadian who sees nothing wrong in visiting Cuba (or that maybe they should go spend their money elsewhere) any of this. They are likely to defend the Communists and attack you or the US for causing whatever problems exist there.

      1. I don’t have a problem with people visiting Cuba. I don’t defend the regime, though, but I don’t defend the state’s removal of people’s mobility and economic rights by forbidding them from visiting Cuba or importing Cuban cigars.
        If a state is serious about ending the regime, they would simply end it by force, and the recent protests there were the perfect opportunity, but, it seems that current US regime prefers to infringe on the rights of its own citizens rather than actually help the Cubans.
        Increasingly, the difference between Canada and Cuba is one of degree, not kind, and yet I don’t see anyone saying people shouldn’t visit Canada.
        If you agree that the government should be able to tell you where you can and cannot travel to or do business, then I guess you’re fine with COVID passports, too.

          1. So, because we are now a commie regime, Americans should no longer visit us, by conscience, and Canadians shouldn’t visit BC, for the same reason.
            Oh, and Australia is brutal with its Flu-manchu rules, so we shouldn’t visit the place and “prop up” that regime, etc.
            England has thought-police combing social media and harassing and arresting its citizens, so that place is out.
            Israel has implemented COVID passports, so its out.
            California? Out! Paris? Out!
            If the existence of a vile regime running a place is reason enough to boycott it, well, your choices are pretty limited.

        2. Biden won’t do anything but the ex- pat Florida Cubans will. They hate what has happened to their country.

          When the time is right it will be the Flordians who sail triumphantly back to Cuban shores.

    4. Your an ignorant idiot.
      You obviously didn’t read the placard the guy was carrying
      “Benefit to cuban people 0%”

  6. NDP/Liberal voters who regularly go to Cuba literally just shrug their shoulders when you point out Cuba’s human rights abuses and oppression, they do not care at all about those people.

    1. On the contrary, its tourists to Cuba who make one of the largest contributions to the standard of living there. Its economy, such as it is, is fueled by tourism. If you wish to see more people starve there, then by all means, embargo the place, just don’t pretend you care about the people living there.

      1. The tourist money keeps the people in power, in power. Your sick, twisted words are those of a Liberal POS or a commie POS.

        1. That money also feeds lots of Cubans, not that you give a rat’s ass about them.
          The money you spend on cable and satellite TV funds commie propaganda, the taxes Canadians pay keeps our uni-party in power. You would like to see more Cubans starve, it seems.

          2. Allow me to explain it so that even the dullest among us can understand:
            Q: What keeps a tyrant in power?
            A: His willingness to use force, and access to the wealth generated by his subjects.

            Q: How do you remove a tyrant?
            A: By force, either you have a revolution and oust him, or a foreign power removes him from power.

            Q: What don’t you do to remove a tyrant from power?
            A: Remove all the wealth from his subjects. They have little enough as it is.

            Now, please stop pretending you care about the poor subjects living in Cuba. The fact is, hatred for the regime doesn’t imply concern for the subjects of said regime, and your willingness to see them starve is ample proof of that fact.

  7. So, if I owned a resort in Canaeda, what percentage of my revenues would eventually be scooped up by greedy governments? Think: federal & provincial income taxes, municipal taxes, environmental taxes, capital gains, etc. etc.

    I’d be lucky if the *&^%$#g parasites only grabbed 51 percent.

  8. I have always wanted to share a few beer with those resourceful Cuban Dr. Frankensteins who have kept all of those 50’s American cars running to this day, with almost no parts available.

      1. Funny how communism and poverty go hand in hand, isn’t it?

        It helps explain why leftist leaders are so focused on policies that destroy western societies and their economies. CRT, MMGW, COVID, etc, all being manipulated to destroy any wealth not already held by the elites.

        1. Yep. Central command and control economies are an obscenity.
          Still, there is poverty in the absence of CCC economies, take India, for example.
          India, however, is climbing, while Canada and most of the west is plummeting.

    3. All that’s left of those 50’s cars is the body. They all have pollution spewing ruskie diesel motors and parts.

  9. Canadians like more than communist beaches, they also elect a person who admires how commie China runs it’s economy and whose family had close ties to Cuba’s dictator, calling Castro “uncle Fidel”.
    It has to follow Canadians have no problem with communism and are poised to elect an admirer of it for another term.

  10. Over the years I have had friends go to Cuba because it was cheap. I told them that I would never spend a dime there to support the imprisonment of an entire country. Canadians really don’t give a damn about freedom.

    1. Is giving a friend in jail a carton of smokes supporting his imprisonment?
      Cuban freedom is something for the Cubans to deal with, and embargoing the place doesn’t help them. Giving an insurgent group a bunch of small arms would help them.

    2. Replying to very old white guy. I’m with you on that. My list of ‘never visit’ includes China, Hong Kong and Burma. Since Covid lockdowns I’ve added countries I planned to visit including Australia and NZ.

  11. Yeah Well, I don’t think too many around here bother with that cable shit. Reading the gripey letters of those who blame a failed liberation almost 60 years ago leads me to my prayer that the CBC be de funded .. I agree with the Rusty, I have very little in common with any CBC commenter. Used to work there too. Got paid to do nothing. The opposite of Cuban hotel Slaves.

    1. Those hotel slaves love your tips in $Cdn. No tourism in Cuba = the Cuban people suffering even more.
      When they started protesting, the US should have sent a few green berets in with a shitload of small arms.

      1. YW, If Trump was still in charge, those Green Berets, would probably have been activated for that very purpose. …sigh!

        As to your to’s and fro’s above, re Cuba, I am in agreement with you.

      2. You’ve never been to Cuba.

        The hotel slaves don’t get to keep the tips. They’re searched on the way out of work to ensure they’re not hiding any of the tip money. Not that it would matter, as the only currency foreigners are allowed to use is CUC, and it’s illegal for a Cuban to use CUC or sell it to a foreigner.

        That’s why people who have actually been to Cuba – unlike you – are advised not to tip with cash, but with cheap toys and things from the dollar store. The hotel maids appreciate them for their kids, and the state police don’t care about those things.

  12. Had a girlfriend whose friends were trying to talk her into a couples trip to Cuba. Told her we weren’t supporting commies and that was the end of that trip. (for all involved)

    I have to admit, that was pretty easy compared to trying to avoid made in China stuff.

    1. If you live in Canada, you support commies every time you pay any kind of federal tax, like when you buy gasoline.

  13. Mostly good comments on here but some read like they belong on the CBC comment section.There is one reason Liberals and other socialist swine go to Cuba that is because it’s cheap.They don’t care about helping the people they think only of themselves.They then feel bad because they know it’s wrong to support Commies ,so they tip some poor bastard a few dollars and suddenly all is well again.

    1. So, a guy who helps a Cuban subject out by giving him a few dollars is bad, but a guy who does nothing for them at all but virtue-signal his hatred of communism is good.

      So much for critical thinking in the west: The MSM and the rest of the commie propaganda machine has finally polluted people’s minds to the point where they actually think that virtue-signaling = virtue, as long as they agree with the content of the signal. You must be proud of yourself, just like the rest of the social media mobs are.

  14. Hey, you wanna go to Cuba, go to Cuba.
    Don’t justify your trip that you are helping.
    Yes, the socialists go to Cuba, they bring trinkets to sprinkle around, makes them feel very superior, magnanimous even.
    A pencil, a pen, few candies for the children, maybe a t-shirt.
    The locals are happy of course, to get some of those things. Even when they feel inferior to take it.
    How do I know? I grew up in a country run by the same totalitarians.
    We resented those tourists from wealthy countries bringing trinkets, as though we were some throwaway people.
    We worked for living, even though it did not amount to buying a radio, TV, fridge, washing machine from a paycheck.
    You had to work a whole year and not buy yourself an ice cream, a beer, a ticket to hockey game and other such little pleasures to save for those things.
    At times you may have been hungry and could not buy food other than bread to fill you. Must say there was not starvation, though there was hunger, often.
    Come to think of it there is a lot of excess weight in this country, perhaps the coming socialism/fascism will fix that and happiness will return.
    Yeah, those that go to Cuba feel great, they can buy cheap stuff and be happy.
    The proletariat can be happy or be damned, they gave them the trinkets, they are the good people.

    1. If a man decides to go to Cuba, he doesn’t need to justify it to anyone. If you feel that he does, well, you’re no different than a leftist who feels that a man should be able to justify buying a Lear jet.
      You too seem to prefer virtue-signaling hatred of the regime, vile as it is, to actually doing anything.

    2. One more thing.
      For the Cubans to make a living they have to engage in free enterprise. To say that the happy Canadian tourists are helping, yes helping to keep them in poverty. The Cubans stay and the happy Canadian tourists feel good about themselves and go home to relative prosperity.
      Helped Europe to create wealth getting out of the utter misery of living on the brink of starvation for centuries, it is a wonder how the people survived. And North America was the most prosperous place on this planet for the most people until the government started to help. From then on it started the downhill slide.

      1. So your answer is to remove yet more wealth from the Cuban people. It become more and more obvious that you are guided not by concern for the plight of the Cuban people, but by hatred of the regime, vile as it is.
        A man given a jar of peanut butter or a box of bic lighters is better of than man not given these things, no matter how vile the regime he lives under is. Embargoes do not help free enterprise, and to suggest that they do is pure insanity.

        1. It is not the peanut butter it is buying the resort stay that goes to the Commie Government.

      1. So your answer, too, is not to engage in free enterprise with Cuban subjects.
        Good for you, way to support free enterprise.

  15. People should be able to go where they please, and do business where they please, without state interference. If your answer to Cuba’s state interference with Cuban’s rights is to have our state interfere with our rights, then you are part of the problem.

    1. “People should be able to go where they please,”
      Yes, absolutely, just don’t try to justify it by pretending to be generous.
      Go and enjoy and leave it at that.

      1. I have no plans to visit the place.
        That being said, I maintain that its economy, sad and corrupt as it is, is based on tourism, and killing that industry there is tantamount to killing people there.

        1. Sure tourism is supporting the locals. It also props up the military and the oligarchs.

          Take your pick.

          My old Mom used to lecture me when I’d be whining about something, “Trapper, lifes not fair, get used to it.”

  17. Wow, YeahWell, you have made near half of the posts on this entire thread.

    With injustice and suffering all around this globe, both communist-caused and otherwise, may I ask why you seem so particularly ‘passionate’ about Cuba?

    1. Basically, I hate virtue-signalers who use their fake virtue as an excuse to berate people who are not harming anyone, and the Cuban embargo sacred cow is one of those cases.
      The whole “visiting Cuba is supporting the regime” argument is retarded. Its like saying “visiting Canada is supporting gun-grabbing, internet censorship and abortion.”

      2. Virtue signaling is when you give a guy jar of peanut butter.
        Helping is when you send him a hundred bucks every month.
        Bet you that’s difficult to digest.

        1. LOL.
          Helping is pushing a stuck car out of a snowbank, something you never do, no doubt, because its not “helping”, you just walk past them, because, in Canada, chances are he’s a commie.
          Lets see the list of people you send $100.00 a month to.

          1. What the hell are you about?
            It’s like somebody sez 2+2 are four and then you go and say no, 10 and 10 are 20.

    2. Did he support the sanctions against apartheid South Africa? Was he one of the few foreign tourists before independence in 1994? Travel to any country who lets you in, skip the artifice.

  18. CO

    Good question.
    Cuba was considered bit Puerto Vallarta was a far better destination for us…mainly for significantly shorter AirPlane trips….

    Reviews from those that Did go there also figured in our decision.

    I won’t support their economy anymore than I would Quebecs. Best thing any country could do is fly a couple of Globemasters making small drops of small arms..and AR’s….if they are able to avoid the SAMs and Radars.

  19. natives cannot go to these ‘apartheid hotels, the property was acquired from american businesses who were nationalized, canadian investors should know there is no legal code that will avail them from the regime, details that companero yeah misses out. not to mention the ubre blanca vaccine, that does no good for anyone, maybe one or all of those seven generals took it,

  20. Raul who as head of the army, is like the entire conference table in godfather, closed down those paladares, converted homes into restaurants, years ago, the hospital system that the fat (redacted) michael moore has championed is a horror,

  21. There sure a lot of lapdogs that comment on CBC that would pay to stand in line behind Shameless O’Raygun to take a turn under True Dough’s desk

  23. Some of you will remember the Montreal Canadiens hockey player Serge Savard. He’s one of the Canadian ‘investors’ in Cuba. His partner in developing resorts is the Cuban government, not a private corporation or individual. All the resort money is collected by the Castro government.

    All enterprise in communist countries is owned by the government not the people. All resources are stolen by party insiders (oligarchs).

    If it makes you feel better about yourself knowing a few crumbs fall off the kings table and feed the rats then sobeit.

  24. “Justin’s Cuban family taking a financial hit.”

    Hey “ya well”
    You obviously didnt get the jist of the headline.

    1. Justin’s Cuban family is doing very well, thank you. It’s the ordinary Cubans who are taking the hit.

  25. I have been asked for years by friends and relatives to join them in Cuba and I give them the same answer “ never “ . I refuse to legitimize that regime , it’s as simple as that . Spare me the horseshit about helping the poor Cubans . They go because it is cheap .

  26. My daughter brought up a destination wedding idea. Brought up having it in Cuba. I said I wasn’t going. Had the wedding in our hometown and it was a great event.

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