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Originally posted by RACooper
Sigh... last time I checked Canadians were killed on Sept. 11th
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Any Canadians who died on September 11th did so because they were in the US. Canada does not have an equal voice in dealing with the aftermath of 9-11, and they don't deserve an equal voice.
Moving past the people who died on that day, Canada had no real estate destroyed, while we had several billion dollars worth. Canadian citizens experienced no effects from the air in the area that was toxic for months on end. And Canada was not attacked by terrorists who expressed a desire to detonate a nuclear device on Canadian soil in the future.
The US is "King of the Hill," and there are those who are jealous. Specifically, Jihadists are projecting there hatred for modernity onto the US, and not Canada because Canada is not relevant.
Most importantly, for me, Canadians could disengage from the effects of 9-11 by changing a TV channel. For me, and many others, there was no such luxury. I had to live with 9-11 on that day, and I still live with it. My health suffered for weeks because of the toxic air (until I bought an air purrifier, which I did before free ones were given out,) and I still don't know what the long term health effects will be.
If Canadians suffered, they did so by choice. No one ever gave me the choice.