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Originally Posted by Dravyk
Ok, what has Canada done recently that should be acknowledged?
Not being antagonistic, it's a nonjudgmental question.
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There's good reason why Canada has been not backing the US up on a lot of international activities, its because of how the country has been getting treated by the US ever since Bush got into office.
A brief summary of a few of the events, 9/11 we opened up our homes, airports, we had a "Canada loves NY" day where Canadians were called upon to go to New York to help give their tourism a boost, we donated so much blood to the red cross that it went bad, and we were very much in a position of supporting the US right up until Bush failed to acknowledge our efforts, and then named the UK as their closest friend & ally in their time of need.
Then there was the time the American pilots bombed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. This might've been before or after the 9/11 thing, I can't remember exactly since it was a while ago. That went unacknowledged by Bush too and when faced with the matter on live television, his response was weak, he sputtered something about how we're "so close" that he thinks of Canadian soldiers as the same as American soldiers & didn't feel it needed mentioning as a result... except everytime an American soldier dies, we hear about it.
Then there's the Urban S&R teams we had in New Orleans that down there, probably weren't even reported about & again went unacknowledged except for a few people
http://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/pu...0905_660.shtml
That's the most recent one, and I'm sure if I really wanted to, I could look up even more info to cover the time span inbetween those events.
The world sometimes wonders why Canada's support for the US is increasingly less on international fronts, this is why.