Members of Her Majesty’s HMCS Athabaskan give sunscreen to the children at the orphanage in Leogane,
Haiti. Photo: Corporal Johanie Maheu

“Haitians are very knowledgeable about what Canada is doing in their country, and they are generally not happy about it at all.”

- Stuart Hammond, January 21, 2010

Canadian Troops. In Haitian cities. I am not making this up:

A baby girl has been born in Haiti, and her name was born in Canada.

Monique-Lucie Marie, who weighs about six pounds, was delivered today at a Canadian military hospital.

She is the first baby to be delivered there, although others have been born at the Canadian clinic a two-hour drive away in the hard-hit town of Leogane.

The Canadian military and volunteers have been handling much of the medical work for some communities in southern Haiti, most notably Jacmel, where the Disaster Assistance Response Team is deployed.

But this one had a special ending: a pair of Canadian medical technicians, Cpl. Monique Bartlett and Master Cpl. Lucie Rouleau, helped deliver the baby.

They also contributed Monique-Lucie’s first name, which was chosen by a grateful mother.

Canadians are doing other sinister things, like adopting Haitian orphans, sending lots of money and supplies, and asking for foreign debt to be canceled so they can rebuild their country.