Oh Canada

[thesummerqueen]

No one's posted this yet? No? Okay....

Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims denied at border

Hi, my name is Summer, and I am an American. It's been less than 24 hours since my country last embarrassed me. This morning I got the irrational feeling that everything was going to be okay, but fortunately the internet was able to hold my hand until that feeling went away.

A Canadian shipment of relief goods bound for storm-ravaged Oklahoma has been stopped at the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ont.

American officials will not allow the 20,000 kilograms of food, blankets and diapers into the country until every item on board is itemized in alphabetical order and has the country of origin of every product noted.

Dennis Sauve, the volunteer co-ordinator for Windsor Lifeline Outreach and the food bank co-ordinator at the Windsor Christian Fellowship, the two organizations that gathered the goods, said it's a "physical impossibility" to do the paperwork required in time to get the perishable food to Oklahoma before it spoils.

Because U.S. President Barack Obama hasn't declared Moore, Okla., tornado a disaster area, the 52-foot trailer of goods is considered a commercial shipment rather than humanitarian aid.

[Minimalist]

Um - something is fucked up here.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-offi...eclaration

President Obama Signs Oklahoma Disaster Declaration

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Oklahoma and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms and tornadoes beginning on May 18, 2013, and continuing.

The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Cleveland, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie.

This is ten days old already.

[thesummerqueen]

Nearest we can figure is we're not allowed to accept goods from a socialist country.

[Violet]

A goodwill package from Canada got turned back at the border? At least they didn't try to send us Canadian Air support... because that would've been offensive, and we'd have to retaliate with American Air.

It's gassy.

[NoraBrimstone]

That's horrible.

[little_monkey]

Bet anything that border patrol officer is a Republican? Any takers?