I think Canada may be Cuba's second biggest trade partner--somewhere on the order of 20% of Cuban trade is with this country.

You can buy Cuban cigars in Canada. Many Americans buy them here.

A ggod friend of mine visits there twice or three times per year. He is a musician, and he always takes strings and other music accessories to his friends there. Sits in with the sextet and for the time he's there is an honourary member of the group, thus making it a septet for about six weeks a year. Yes, Cubans are generally economically poor. The same might be said of the disenfranchised in North America. But here we tend to think if we don't own a two-car garage with an eight room house attached that we're poor. Have a heart attack in the USA if ya don't have a private insurance coverage or a non-covered illness in Canada, and both the garage and house will be gone in no time. A Cuban in similar circumstance will still have the place he lives in and a life to keep living in it. imo