By Peter McKenna
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits powerhouse Brazil and the tiny Central American country of Costa Rica – which shares a bilateral free trade agreement with us – he shies away from the less ideologically acceptable countries of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
But at a time when Harper claims to be pursuing an invigorated policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), he is ignoring Canada’s natural advantages in Cuba – one of the region’s most important countries.
