Fantino's Foot-In-Mouthitis Flares Again

Harper loose cannon Julian Fantino is at it again.   Now safely distanced from the F-35 fiasco, Fantino has been unleashed on the International Cooperation portfolio.

His diplomatic prowess was demonstrated in La Presse where Fantino announced Canadian aid to Haiti was being frozen.  It turns out that nobody notified the Haitians or, for that matter, Canada's ambassador to Port-au-Prince either.

Haitian ambassador to Canada Frantz Liautaud said the first he heard of Mr. Fantino’s freeze on aid to Haiti was through this morning’s news. He’s already contacted the Canadian International Development Agency, the government aid organization that Mr. Fantino oversees, seeking clarification.

...He said he called Canada’s ambassador to Port-au-Prince, who didn’t know about it either. “He also learned about it from the press,” Mr. Liautaud said.

In his interview with La Presse, Mr. Fantino said Haitians have to take charge of their own problems, and was quoted in French saying Haitian aid is “on ice at the moment.”

“Are we going to take care of their problems forever? They also have to take charge of themselves,” he was quoted as saying by La Presse.

Yep, Fantino is all class.  How this joker ever got beyond beat cop is a complete mystery.