Canada has pledged $60 million to help Haiti fight back brazen criminal gangs, with most of the funding contingent on the United Nations supporting an American plan to expand a police mission into a gang-suppression force.

“We have to work collectively toward regional peace and regional security,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday at an event she co-hosted with her Haitian counterpart at the United Nations.

Haiti has been racked by violence and political chaos since 2021 and armed gangs control much of the country. Canada has targeted members of Haiti’s economic elite with sanctions, arguing they have collaborated with gangs sowing instability across the country.

In June 2024, Kenya launched a mission supported by the UN aimed at empowering the Haitian police and fig

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