CABL Forum - Re:America: The Good Neighbor.

Thank you very much. You and all Canadians are welcome to our tables at any time. You, too, are good neighbors.

Jim Wallace

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>>As a Canadian working in the U.S. I have had the pleasure of travelling across North America and making friends in every state I visit. I have recently come accross the following quote, written by Gordon Sinclair, that eloquently expresses the way I, and I think I can safely say all Canadians, feel about the United States. I post this message in the hopes in will provide some small comfort to the family and friends of all of the victims of the the recent Terror attacks and to all Americans who have given thier lives fighting for the freedom we all currently enjoy.
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>>The below was written by a now deceased Canadian Journalist who wrote this during another time of American discomfort and crisis. This was a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
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>> America: The Good Neighbor.
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>>"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
>> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
>>When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
>> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.
>>The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
>> I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
>> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -! not once, but several times - and safely home again.
>> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
>> When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
>> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
>> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
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>>Stand proud, America!
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>>Stinger:
> Take a look at this article from todays news. Although most are behind America in this time of grief. I guess some officals in canada are not.
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>From todays news:
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>HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A Canadian policeman who took his own tracking dog to the wreckage of the World Trade Center, and is reported to have found a survivor, has been suspended after it was found he was there without the knowledge of his employer, his superiors said on Wednesday.
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>Jamie Symington, 35, of the Halifax Regional Police, went to the scene of the carnage two weeks ago and was interviewed on local television in Manhattan after he helped to find a survivor, according to Canada media reports.
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>His superiors told Reuters they were amazed to discover he had gone to the scene of devastation without permission.
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>"We were unaware he was there. We learned about it on TV," said Sgt. Brenda Zima, public relations officer at the Halifax police.
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>Zima said Symington had been on leave for a "personnel issue" since last June and that the timing of last Monday's suspension was "difficult".
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>She said she understood the public outcry about the decision but advised caution. "It is not as simple as it may seem. We have very good reasons and the situation is complex in its nature," Zima said.
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>The Halifax police union has said it will stand by Symington and provide him resources until he gets his day in court.
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>A policeman from Palos Verdes Estates in Southern California, Joe Hall, was quoted in Canada's National Post on Wednesday as saying he was with Symington when the Canadian policeman's dog discovered a survivor.
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>Some 6,400 people are listed as missing in the debris where New York's World Trade Center once stood.
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