... next time y'all want some disaster assistance please lose our number.

Sincerely,

Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/s ... order.html

Spray FU on the back of the trailer, head North and make some poor Canadians happy.
Unbelievable!

That's sort of my thought, too. Toronto, Windsor, etc. probably have food banks that would be more than happy to get the stuff before it goes bad.

The story (from May 31, 2013) says;



And yet on May 21, 2013,;

President Barack Obama has declared an Oklahoma City suburb a major disaster area after it killed up to 91 residents and injured 200, The Chicago Tribune reports.

Now Moore, Okla., will receive federal aid after it saw what's being called the deadliest tornado in the United States since Joplin, Mo., had a tornado kill 161 residents two years ago.
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/morning_call/2013/05/obama-declares-major-disaster-area-in.html

OK, something strange here.

I looked at that article again and found the part I quoted...



... is now missing, yet is shows up where the article is quoted...

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/01/too-bad-to-check-us-wont-allow-canadian-relief-for-ok-to-cross-border/

It's like they updated the story but don't mention what they removed.

CBC constantly updates.

CBC constantly updates.

Yes, but here they seemed to just remove a section of the article and that section explained why the goods were stopped at the border. They don't appear to have replaced it with another explanation.

If I could have a way to get there, I'd buy the damned paint and pain the big F U on the back of the truck myself. Oh, how I wish there was someone to actually do that.

Does my country have to keep embarrassing its citizens with public displays of its absolute ineptitude, stupidity, incompetence, asininity, deceit and corruption?

Are these people at the border absolutely insane, or what?

jd

It looks like it was just a bad update. The article no longer mentions it being considered a commercial load but the is still a subheading referring to it.

I'm NO FAN of "zero tolerance" anything and I think this was a decidedly stupid reaction, especially in an emergency humanitarian situation and most especially because it's from Canada ~ but I do understand and support laws governing commercial foreign food imports [think of the health problems w/some Chinese imports] ~ but I think there should be a "white list" of sorts that identifies trusted nations ~

Sooz

Good point, Chaos.

Not to mention the fact that if this food had reached Oklahoma and people got sick from it, I'm sure there would be those wondering why something was done.

Yep.
We Canucks are out to getcha.

Are these people at the border absolutely insane, or what? jd

They sound like maybe they're repugs...
not sure about perishables what exactly was meant by that, but a lot of the shipment sounded like stuff Americans in need could have used...and yeah, if someone handed me a bag of rice i bet if I was w/o shelter or food, i'd find a way to cook it!

Build a campfire. There ought to be plenty of scrap wood around.

Another thought: They may have been headed to deliver those things to a shelter and/or soup kitchen that could have stored and/or cooked it.

They had a refridgerated truck that would have kept the food safe for the trip, but not for the time it would take to do the inventory and paperwork, then make the trip.

Next time a load of "preishables" comes in from the US I'll be sure to avoid it.
I could get sick, ya know.

Preishables may give you warts.

I've always said, we watch the southern border, but it's the northern border we should worry about.

OK, I've never actually said that.

And I must admit, I've always liked you Canucks.

I think that might have been Napolitano going on about the "Northern border".

Even this article mentions the "disaster area" declaration angle....

Windsor relief effort for Moore Oklahoma allowed to cross border

Read more: http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/windsor-relie ... z2VDNRXCBa

That's not a CBC article -- it's a HotAir article quoting parts of the the CBC article.

That sentence still appears in the actual CBC article:

http://www.cbc.ca/mt_ept/stories/2013/06/01/canadian-relief-for-moore-tornado-victims-denied-at-border.html

I just used the Hotair link to show it had been in the article. Check the link Oskar provided - it's not there.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/05/31/wdr-moore-tornado-relief-us-border.html

But you're right, your link has it - strange.