# Canada sends navy ships to New Orleans to help **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903 "2005-09-03T16:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![6\_6\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e0b2c6/32.png) [@6\_6\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6_6_6)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/41 "2005-09-11T23:13:02Z")
> [@Tuco](#): > > The UK seems notable in its absence from the list of contributing countries at the bottom of that page. We’ve been listed as **Britain** rather than as the **UK**. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/42 "2005-09-12T00:59:18Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I, for one, welcome our Canadian Overlords. Excellent. Our quiet infiltration seems to be taking shape. > [@](#): > > It’s aboot time, too. You’ll be hard pressed to find a Canadian who says “aboot” unless they’re talking about footwear. Hey **Daizy** - everyone knows it’s not the Canadian Navy ship at WEM, it’s the subs. Sheeesh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/43 "2005-09-12T16:06:47Z")
O Canada! Thanks, guys - much obliged. You’re a much better neighbor to us than we are to you, I’m sorry to say… ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/44 "2005-09-12T16:14:17Z")
> [@William V.](#): > > O Canada! Thanks, guys - much obliged. You’re a much better neighbor to us than we are to you, I’m sorry to say… Perhaps, but have you seen the size of our trade surplus with you guys recently? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/45 "2005-09-13T14:09:34Z")
Looks like they’ve arrived and have started to work: [Canadian relief ships steam into Florida](http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1126453900175_43/?hub=TopStories) [Canadian divers begin first salvage effort](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/09/11/1212699-cp.html) ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/46 "2005-09-13T20:39:01Z")
Just this past July, I spent a couple of hours on a tour of the [HMCS Toronto](http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/toronto/) warship, a very cool ship which was docked on the Windsor side of the Detroit River. Very nice and professional sailors aboard. The ship’s badge has a beaver on it, I do not kid. As a local Coast Guard ship went past, their hands came out on deck and saluted the Canadian ship as they went by. Tres cool, I thought. I remember the Canadians’ contribution during the Iran hostage crisis as well. I hope that the American government has helped out Canada in humanitarian actions, but I’m chagrined that I can’t think of any right now. It was joked on ‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes’ that the Canadian armed forces had been reduced to a guy on a bike w/ a stick. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/47 "2005-09-13T21:42:05Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > Don’t let the politicos in D.C know, it might be a pretext for war if Canada sends relief effor- > > _WAR! CANADA INVADES NEW ORLEANS!_ > “We will locate Saddam’s missing WMD, even if we have to burn down Calgary to find them!” says Prez. > Haliburton awarded 100 Gazillion dollar contract. VP Cheney says, “That’s just peachy!” They’re coming from both sides people! I’m thinking Canada and Mexico have finally ganged up against us! [Mexican Navy sends rescuers, supplies for Katrina victims](http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050905-1506-mexico-us-katrina.html) ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/48 "2005-09-13T22:14:55Z")
> [@Big\_Norse](#): > > They’re coming from both sides people! I’m thinking Canada and Mexico have finally ganged up against us! > > [Mexican Navy sends rescuers, supplies for Katrina victims](http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050905-1506-mexico-us-katrina.html) Quick, someone check the NAFTA fine print; this seems suspiciously like a hostile takeover… ---
**Author:** ![Crimmsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Crimmsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimmsy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903/49 "2005-09-13T22:29:23Z")
> [@Portia](#): > > I hope that the American government has helped out Canada in humanitarian actions, but I’m chagrined that I can’t think of any right now. A former Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Ray Crabbe, wrote a column on America coming to our aid in times of crisis - it is [here](http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/westview/story/3027440p-3510209c.html). It is interesting reading; I didn’t know about any of these actions myself until now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-sends-navy-ships-to-new-orleans-to-help/319903.md?page=2)