Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is receiving calls to confront the hostile rhetoric of the United States for intensifying the blockade against Cuba and to send aid to the Caribbean nation, national media highlights today.

Recently, in the House of Commons, interim leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Don Davies, urged the government to "support Cuba in the face of aggressive American imperialism," arguing that this would lend weight to Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum, according to a report by The Canadian Press agency.

At the global gathering, Carney urged middle powers to stand up to the intimidation of superpowers.

Davies stated that Trump feels "emboldened by the lack of resistance" to his incursion into Venezuela, and said that Carney "has remained silent" while the White House chief threatens Cuba and the Western hemisphere in general.

In this context, Mexico sent warships with basic foodstuffs and personal hygiene items to Cuba, and the New Democrats assert that Canada should follow this example.

During a meeting with the prime minister, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet also raised the need for Canada to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, expressing that Cubans "do not deserve their current suffering" in a statement in French.

"I asked the prime minister to follow Mexico's example and come to the aid of the Cuban people, whose living conditions are rapidly deteriorating due to the U.S. embargo," he wrote.

However, Foreign Minister Anita Anand did not specify whether Canada will speak out against Washington or offer fuel or humanitarian aid.

Instead, she highlighted efforts to support Canadian tourists on the Caribbean island, given the suspension of flights by Canadian airlines due to the fuel shortage the island is experiencing.

As part of his economic war against Cuba, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to Cuba, causing blackouts and difficulties in the services upon which the Cuban people and foreign visitors depend.

These restrictions add to the more than six decades of economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by Washington on Havana—a hostile policy Canada never replicated. Instead, it maintained ties with Havana after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959, despite U.S. pressure.

At a recent event, Cuba's ambassador to Canada, Rodrigo Malmierca, denounced that with the new measures, the United States violates international law.

"The economic war policy of the United States government against Cuba has reached its most ruthless expression in recent days. This is how they intend Cuba to surrender: by suffocating our economy and our population," he warned.