Like many other Canadians I am totally peeved...
I thought Bush's speech was amazing at first, but then there was no mention of Canada.
We didn't have to open up our airports, homes and hearts to the thousands of Americans stranded in our Country - but we did because of the historic friendship between Canada and the United States.
We were the first country in the world to committ ourselves to helping the Americans wage this war on terrorism - even though it may put a great strain on our armed forces.
We have sent in emergency response from as far away as Vancouver, and many Canadian doctors living in or visiting New York were there to assist in any way the could, and of course tonnes of Canadian were killed in this disaster - one of my dad's collegues - his cousin worked in the WTC - they managed to identify his body parts.... another family friend (who is a prof at Harvard) his friend was aboard one of the planes out Boston.
So as you can see Bush's oversight of Canada was major screw up and has royally pissed off a lot of Canadians.
Sure Colin Powell talked about how great Canada was - the day after - but he was a "day late & a buck short" on that one....
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