ATTN Canada: Will Martin offer any aid to the USA in regards to Katrina?

[neilson]

Canadians, I ask of you to e-mail Paul Martin, your MPs and your charitable organizations, and ask what if anything will be sent to New Orleans and Mississippi to help the crisis.

I think people like me just need to wait (& of course donate to the Red Cross) for this to clear up - b/c I admit I'm no longer viewing this as some fascinating disaster movie. This is feeling too real & personal, being that New Orleans is one of my favorite cities.

Besides the tsunami of last year & 9/11 - I haven't felt this personally affected & disturbed by what I'm hearing / seeing since. I simply can not stomach the idea of discussing 'number of deaths' or anything regarding the obvious economic impact.

So - talk all you want, I'm going to do what I can to prevent the worst:
http://www.redcross.org/

And, I sincerely hope and pray that the world response to this disaster will be swift and prompt. Money is fine, but we want and need manpower. Canada, Europe, Asia; we've been there for you. Just this once, bring that same sense of unity after the tsunumi to these ppl.

[asim99]

may be you should write to bush asking him to stop spending billions on wars, and help the poor ones at home instead....might suit him to take a lesson in basic human decency

[15-20_God]

instead of sending the reserves to Iraq to help "rebuild", maybe he should send the reserves to New Orleans to help clear that mess up.

Oh wait, that mess was caused by nature so lets let a 3rd party agency fix that. And first things first, lets untap the strategic oil reserves, humans can wait.

[neilson]

Damnit; you people and politics.

I don't give a **** about Iraq or softwood or anything. Even gas prices; I'LL PAY OUT MY ASS OK!!!!!!!!!!!! Politics mean dick to me right now.

THis is a refugee crisis, the likes of which the USA has never seen.

IF you want to look at this from a political perspective rather then a Human Crisis, FINE.

I honestly expected more from Canadians of all people.

[aquariaguy]

New Orleans isn't important to Bush. Only the oil rigs offshore are.

[puff_daddy_58_99]

a) this is certainly not a refugee crisis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee
"A refugee is a person seeking refuge (or asylum) in another country in order to escape persecution. "

b) The USA has 10X the manpower, 10X the resources, and 10X the money to repair and rebuild. The canadian government should help in any way they can, but I highly doubt that there is anything we can do, that they aren't already doing.

In that instance, I would almost consider it a slap in the face to offer 'assistance' to the americans.

[neilson]

You guys; .................................................. ..................................


I am honestly pissed beyond comprehension by the reactions on here.

You guys don't like Bush. Fine. We've gotten the picture over the past 5 years.

New Orleans is about to become unsustainable for human life for the short term; the Superdome is trapped around water; and all you want to do is "HATE BUSH".

HATE BUSH, HATE BUSH; You guys are evil.

[Rometiklan]

Watching it on the news, I am just awestruck by the pounding New Orleans has taken, and had Katrina not relented slightly, it could have been much much worse.

I have no problems with Canada helping the americans out. That is, if they ask for our help. If the most powerful country in the world asks for humanitarian aid, I would question how thinly they have spread their resources around.

[15-20_God]

Damnit; you people and politics.

I don't give a **** about Iraq or softwood or anything. Even gas prices; I'LL PAY OUT MY ASS OK!!!!!!!!!!!! Politics mean dick to me right now.

THis is a refugee crisis, the likes of which the USA has never seen.

IF you want to look at this from a political perspective rather then a Human Crisis, FINE.

I honestly expected more from Canadians of all people.

wow, almost 80 people are dead. hardly a refugee crisis.
honestly, many canadians expected no less from the americans.

[Rometiklan]

instead of sending the reserves to Iraq to help "rebuild", maybe he should send the reserves to New Orleans to help clear that mess up.

Oh wait, that mess was caused by nature so lets let a 3rd party agency fix that. And first things first, lets untap the strategic oil reserves, humans can wait.

Oh man, that's gold.

[asim99]

halliburton alone can fund the entire reconstruction of the affected areas

[15-20_God]

I am honestly pissed beyond comprehension by the reactions on here.

You guys don't like Bush. Fine. We've gotten the picture over the past 5 years.

New Orleans is about to become unsustainable for human life for the short term; the Superdome is trapped around water; and all you want to do is "HATE BUSH".

HATE BUSH, HATE BUSH; You guys are evil.

since your so spiteful that the canadians haven't jumped in to offer help, what has bush done so far in terms of help other than offering to release additional oil from the reserves?

[Ojam]

We should offer some sort of help, I'm not sure what we can do that you can't do yourself, but I think we should offer assistance, if it's not needed, fine, if it is, then we shouldn't slam them for it.

[neilson]

What part of 1 Million ppl displaced and for all intents and purposes homeless do you not understand?

What part of 15 -30,000 dead when it's all said and done don't you understand?

80 alone in ONE Mississippi County are dead.

Louisiana can't report because a lot of the areas just can't be reached.

PPL ARE SEEING BODIES FLOATING DOWN THE STREETS OF NEIGHBORHOODS.

The French Quarter and the CBD are now seeing rising water thanks to the levees breaking.

I just find it selfish of you guys to not put aside politics at this critical moment.

We didn't find out the true death toll from the tsumani until several weeks later.

I fear, the same will be true of New Orleans and Southern Mississippi.

[sportsfan99]

Canadians, I ask of you to e-mail Paul Martin, your MPs and your charitable organizations, and ask what if anything will be sent to New Orleans and Mississippi to help the crisis.

I think people like me just need to wait (& of course donate to the Red Cross) for this to clear up - b/c I admit I'm no longer viewing this as some fascinating disaster movie. This is feeling too real & personal, being that New Orleans is one of my favorite cities.

Besides the tsunami of last year & 9/11 - I haven't felt this personally affected & disturbed by what I'm hearing / seeing since. I simply can not stomach the idea of discussing 'number of deaths' or anything regarding the obvious economic impact.

So - talk all you want, I'm going to do what I can to prevent the worst:
http://www.redcross.org/

And, I sincerely hope and pray that the world response to this disaster will be swift and prompt. Money is fine, but we want and need manpower. Canada, Europe, Asia; we've been there for you. Just this once, bring that same sense of unity after the tsunumi to these ppl.

This is not as bad as the tsunami i gave to that i will not give to this for many reasons.The main one is i was a vic of the ice storm and the states did do not one thing so why should i help them.