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Canadians come out for U.S.!

Just for the record Canada has never felt like another country to me. It always surpiises me when I have to go through a boarder crossing. I was born in Buffalo NY and as a kid we always went to Canada to play.
I hope Canadians feel the same about us. Thank you for being such good neighbors!

That in itself is wonderful. I was driving home on Tuesday in a weepy fog and listening to different reports on the radio. One reporter was speaking to a young guy in Toronto who had driven to the airport looking to offer a meal, shelter, transportation…anything to help.

TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

The following is a transcript of 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:

"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 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."

This was written in 1973.

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Allow me to convey my deepest, deepest thanks for your support. Whenever I’ve visited your wonderful country, I’ve been struck by the friendliness and, yes, charm of your countrymen. And at this awful time, it comes to the fore again.

To those who would “blame Canada” for allowing these bastards into the U.S., I hasten to remind you: Those are U.S. Customs officers at the border. We “let them in” ourselves. Which is not to say, however, that the blame belongs anywhere other than heaped upon the subhumans who did this.

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All I can say is thanks heidi for sharing.

“The older I get, the better I used to be.”

We are joined at the hip with the USA. We are ready to go to war for you, as is England and other countries.
We have sent paramedics, firemen etc. to help out. They were on TV yesterday showing how they rescued someone from the rubble. Blood banks are overflowing with people donating blood etc to be shipped to the US. Donations are flooding in to the Red Cross to purchase supplies for you.
These terrorists did not just attack the United States of America. They attacked all those countries who are allies with her. We are all in a state of mourning. We are all united in the quest to bring down those who have committed this heinous crime.