The Prime Minister of Canada should make a national spectacle, like the liberals’ media, of every dead Canadian soldier from Afghanistan. But he should purposely ignore the dozens of Canadians and the hundreds or thousands of Canadians’ sisters, brothers, friends, and allies who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Liberals are mindless anti-Canadian asses, often—nearly always. For my part, I’m a true Canadian patriot.
Here’s an article from CNews.Canoe.ca:
Harper to make televised address to mark Sept. 11 anniversary; Rice to visit
HALIFAX (CP) – Canada will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States with a televised statement from the prime minister and a memorial service in Halifax attended by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Friday that Stephen Harper will make separate eight-minute live addresses in French and English on Monday evening.
Spokeswoman Carolyn Stewart-Olsen said Harper wants to recognize the 24 Canadians who perished with more than 2,700 others during the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York. About 3,000 died in the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
[…] Some family members of those killed in the attacks responded to the news favourably, days after some had criticized Ottawa for what they said was an inadequate recognition of their loss.
Erica Basnicki, who lost her father Ken Basnicki in the World Trade towers, said she was pleased with news that Harper will officially acknowledge the fact that two dozen Canadians were killed in the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
“They’re recognizing that something has happened to Canadians – that’s more than any other government has done,” she said from New York, where she and her mother planned to attend a memorial ceremony at Ground Zero.
“That’s fantastic.”
Her mother, Maureen, said she was “encouraged” by the plan, but had yet to hear an official announcement from the prime minister.
She was critical of previous Liberal governments she accused of failing to properly honour the victims of 9-11 and their families, while not doing enough to combat terrorist threats in her own country.
“I was dismayed and disappointed with the previous government,” she said Friday from a restaurant in New York. “It sounds like a very positive thing that (Harper’s) doing.”
A father who lost his son in the attacks was disheartened that Ottawa hadn’t done more to let Canadians know how it plans to honour the victims and their families.
Marcel Pelletier, whose son Michael was on the 104th floor of one of the trade towers, said he has always shied away from public memorials, but hoped Ottawa would do something to acknowlege the losses.
“I’m disappointed that there seems to be very little coming from our government regarding that whole thing, but it’s not something that I linger on,” he said from Vancouver, a day before leaving for New York to be with his daughter-in-law and two young grandchildren.
“It’s almost like the Canadian government’s saying, ‘Look, these are Canadians, they were working over there. They should have been working over here.’ I don’t know what to say. I have very disconnected feelings about that.”
Ottawa’s announcement came as Rice said she travel to Halifax to thank Atlantic Canadians who helped thousands of Americans stranded in the region when their planes were forced to land.
“Secretary Rice wanted to go on Sept. 11 as a way of thanking (Canada) and the Canadian people for all that they did on that day,” a State Department spokesman told a news briefing Friday.
“The Canadian government and the Canadian people took in many, many flights and many, many people who were essentially stranded. . . . So that was just an extraordinary act of trust, generosity and kindness in a moment of need.”
Vote liberal. Smoke crack.
(Hat tip: Maureen)
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