Will this console the families of 150 missing Canadians?
Will this help Canadians respond to the utter devestation in Southeast Asia?
Prime Minister Paul Martin is going to Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Three cabinet ministers have been over. Now the PM is diverting part of a scheduled trip to India, China and Japan.
The reasoning?
Conservative trade critic Deepak Obhrai, who will be part of the government’s delegation, said Martin had to make the side trip to the tsunami zone.
“The change in plan reflects the growing anger Canadians had in the initial stages, when they saw the Government of Canada response was not that strong,” he said.
Let’s pray the RCMP forensic team isn’t pulled from their grim task to escort the PM. Or the military. Lord, have mercy. This is not about us and our politics.
The number of dead continues to climb as Aceh province in Indonesia announces another 10 thousand missing and presumed dead.
1. Indonesia: 101,318
2. Sri Lanka: 30,513
3. India (inc Andaman and Nicobar Is): 10,001
4. Thailand: 5,288 5. Somalia: 298
6. Burma: 64
7. Maldives: 82
8. Malaysia: 67 9. Tanzania: 10
10. Seychelles: 1
11. Bangladesh: 2
12. Kenya: 1
700 Swedes are missing and presumed dead. Over 100 are children.
150 thousand people are in imminent danger of disease if clean water, food, and sanitation infrastructure aren’t available very soon - World Health Organization.
3 to 5 million people are now in refugee camps in desperate need of basics.
Parts of Sumatra continue to be cut off from the outside world.
1 thousand children have been orphaned in Sri Lanka alone.
They’ve had to kill dogs in India - the starving animals are attacking humans.
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Thanks for the geat graphic on your site of the entire tsunami. I also want to commend you on your coverage of the crisis. I also commend you in getting as many people to help as possible. Your posts recently are excellent. You have got into a rhythem in your posts that I really enjoy.
It’s the broadcaster in me I guess.
I keep thinking one of the dead or missing could have been someone I know and love…
I don’t know how to identify with a fisherman off the coast of a Burma or Thailand - who has lost his family, his wife, his children, his village, his boat.
If tourists are a psychological way to comphrehend and reach out, so be it.
Currently I am ashamed of - and angry at - the Canadian government.
Thank you for your kind words.
I echo your sentiment. If I were in Canada I would be angry as well. I want to encourage you. One way we can identify with the fisherman and others in the tragedy is to pray for them. Many have already came to Christ. We need to pray that through this devastation that God can have His saving Grace so shine that the lives who have survived can proclaim God’s saving grace that you and I have already experienced. Keep up the good work.
No words. Just tears…
Lots of words…no tears.
I see, I hear, I ache to comfort, to make right.
I’m shocked, stunned, humbled.
I watched a little boy several days after surviving the tsunami crying out constantly; “the water, the water is coming!” His mother, grandmother can’t sooth him, they hold him, wipe his tears, try to hush him. He can’t stop.