Do you remember this infamous Lieberal Party ad from 2006?
It’s most interesting how their comrades at the Red Star aren’t objecting to the military helping the people of Newfoundland … you know … on the streets. Indeed, though the story is a report from the Canadian Press, isn’t it the responsibility of media apparatchiks of the Far Left to at least post a disclaimer or trigger warning? Failure to do so seems like journalistic negligence.
I always wonder what the army is supposed to do in with snow. A lot of Alberta counties likely have more snow removal equipment than the army engineers spread across the country. Helicopter medical teams might be helpful but the the provincial government could hire helicopters to carry their paramedics. It’s a snowstorm people and this is Canada. I’m sure that within a day the main routes are punched out and it is better every day after.
Soldiers shovelling snow…. worked in Tronna 20 years ago, didn’t it? And, yes, as I recall, the mayor considered it an “emergency” back then.
What a mess of an article. For starters, yeah, what is the army going to do? 100 guys with shovels isn’t going to help much and anyone who thinks that there are thousands of soldiers sitting around available for this job is crazy. Then there’s the whole government enforced stay at home order. Nice! You are ordered by your betters to stay at home even though they didn’t plan well enough to clear the roads. It’s hardly te storm of the century, it’s a couple of feet of snow.
Out of food? Out of “medicine”? Too bad. And that brings us to the “medicine” part of the story. This woman had a child with a fever and she ran out of “medicine”? What kind of medicine did this child need? Tylenol? Ibuprofen? It’s just a fever and she wan’t prepared to go a day without access to the local grocery store. FFS, this is what Canada has become.
Yes, a country of people expecting instant gratification for everything, with no clue about watching forecasts and planning ahead, too busy on facebook/twitter to be bothered.
Then when the SHTF, they cry to big mommy government to make it all better gain.
The army isn’t going to dig out the city and get everything back to normal. But 100 fit guys, used to hard work outdoors, to not just surviving where there is no infrastructure, no electricity, no shops, but to actually organising, building, getting jobs done, guys equipped with suitable clothing and other equipment so they can be outside and get around, used to working in teams and not stopping until the job is done? They can be sent out to key tasks that can unblock other resources, and help the normal civilian services with special tasks.
And they usually like doing it, or at least when it’s done they are glad they went and helped, even though they didn’t have “fun.” It’s good training experience. And they don’t get paid overtime rates.
(None of that is meant to excuse other government agencies or the ordinary citizens for not being prepared or for not helping themselves.)
Exactly Tooner. This is a significant storm that hit Newfoundland and all you have to do is go online and look at the pictures and videos. It’s a little more than “only two feet of snow” as some here think. The drifting has some houses completely plugged. There’s vids of people opening their garage door and the snow has drifted 5 or 6 feet. The one I saw the guy pointed his camera over the drift and the snow was half way up his house, car barely visible. Across the street his neighbor had no snow. It’s what 50 mile an hour winds do. So why not help them out? The Army helps during major flooding and they’ll be called to assist in fighting forest fires. Why the cynicism here?
Newfoundland is a province riddled with corruption and is part of the reason why we have the government we have now.
Leave the b@$#@rds.
Also, see “1917” if you haven’t already.
the conservatives didn’t bother recutting the ad, with footage of the members of canadian forces marching with full weapons in the parade last year….
guess they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Canadian military, paid for by the Canadian taxpayer, doing something in Canada besides training (since shovelling out Toronto years ago)?
About time, and some foreign aid could also be spent in Canada to reduce some of our problems here at home.
A liberal will take one position and then take the opposite. They get mad and accuse you of lying when you point out the contradiction.
Liberals are assholes. I wish the snow that fell on all their houses was made of shit.
Mayor Mel asked for the military’s help because he saw the NYS NG troops (and U.S. Army??) in Buffalo and Upstate NY keeping the federal highways open not realizing that they’re equipped (engineer units and the like) to keep them open during emergencies and assumed our own Armed Forces had similar equipment and duties.
BTW, thanks all these years later to the PEI snowplow operators who helped dig out the city! I hope you enjoyed the Leafs game too although I don’t recall the game itself.
I read somewhere that the trouble in Toronto was that the city was doing okay with the clearing but had run out of “approved” sites where they could dump the snow. Bring the army in, and that particular nonsense disappears; the snow gets dumped wherever there’s a reasonably suitable place to pile it with no nonsense about approving the site.
So the welfare province is so far gone,that they cannot even handle a winter storm?
Must be nice to be so useless that you need the illusion of military help when it snows and blows..
Of course this is a classic piece of theatre,they voted Liberal and this is the scharade..”Helping the true supporters”.
Politics as normal in this Kleptocracy.
Follow the money for it is an emergency.
Cause of Climate Change.