“It’s chaos, total chaos,” Paul Toussaint’s cousin, who lives in Haiti, tells him over the phone.
Toussaint regularly checks in on his family members who still live in the country. The thought of Haitians fleeing his native country is a sad thought for Toussaint, who has made Quebec his second home, but after Haiti declared a state of emergency as the country fell further into the grip of gangs, he hopes to bring his mother to Canada, out of harm’s way.
Despite a newly imposed curfew, heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport yesterday, exchanging gunfire with police and