The Boeing C-17 Globemaster purchase was snubbed as “outrageous” and “rushed” and “stupid” and “militaristic” and “a sop to that neocon George Bush” by the likes of that military genius Jack Layton, and his you’ve got to be kidding party, and most other “progressives” in the Liberal Party and other places like the Communist Party of Canada.
The C-17 is the military aircraft that the pacifist and military rust-out Liberals under Chretien and Martin turned down possibly on the basis that they couldn’t see how in tarnation it would help the CBC or any “artists” at all.
This is the same fabulous C-17 Globemaster that the Harper administration “rushed” to buy soon after being elected the first time, on the then still strange and unfamiliar but factual basis that we actually needed them. And it is what Canada’s “DART” rescue team is using today to rush everything from Chinook helicopters to food and tools and medical supplies, today, to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, today. To save lives. Of poor people, today.
But as we know, DESPITE being against the C-17, which is among the most effective tools in supporting troops and helping the suffering and the poor, they really really support the troops (wink!), and they really really support the poor and suffering people everywhere!
The leftists had no interest in the C-17. Well actually I could be wrong.
Look up “C-17 and Jack Layton”, and you’ll find that the “C-17” Layton and the liberals were really concerned about at around that time, was a 2004-2005 Liberal Party bill put before parliament called Bill C-17, 
which was about decriminalizing pot. Seriously. It’s written up in that “Cannabis Culture” web site article at left.
I think after the news about Haiti is reported, the media should ask Jack Layton and any Liberal or “progressive” what they think about the purchase of C-17s now, since it must be obvious even to them that it is such a pivotal tool in providing aid and saving lives and bringing families back together. Unlike their version of the C-17.
In the past, and if the “progressives” had it their way, today Canada would have to call Russia, as they’ve actually had to do in the recent past, and ask them if it would be alright if we borrowed or rented one of their Russian-flagged, communist-era Jacklatonov or Libbydavski military airlift jets, in order for “our country” to be able to help those suffering in humanitarian crises overseas. Of course this silly amateur-hour third-rate country exercise in idiocy took time, meaning it cost lives and immeasurable suffering, and of course it was utterly embarrassing and shameful. But at least we had the CBC and its Little Mosque on the Prairie to entertain us with our tax dollars.
Brigadier-General Yvan Blondin of 1 Canadian Air Division in Winnipeg said in 2007 (when we got our first C-17 Globemaster) that when the 2004 tsunami hit Southeast Asia, the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) team could not get to the scene in a timely manner. “We had to stand in line and wait until something became available.”
I think it’s worth mentioning, today, because this is how we learn how to vote. Days like today are learning moments. You really want to save lives, and “support the troops” and “help the poor”? Vote for the right people. That is one way to truly help instead of just passing a joint and sounding like you want to.
Canada’s disaster response team arrives in Haiti
CTV.ca News Staff
Date: Thu. Jan. 14 2010 12:41 PM ETA massive military transport aircraft, loaded with members of the country’s disaster response unit and humanitarian supplies, has landed in the disaster-struck capital of Haiti.
The Canadian Forces squad called DART, or Disaster Assistance Response Team, worked through the night at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ont., to load the C-17 cargo plane. It then took off at 5 a.m. ET for Port-au-Prince, and arrived around noon.
The DART team includes search-and-rescue technicians who will rush in with equipment and excavation tools to try to pluck out survivors who might still be caught under the rubble.
… Along with the DART team, the C-17 is also loaded with a Griffon helicopter, fuel, clean drinking water and food supplies. …
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