Our friendly neighbors to the north opened up their hearts and wallets to make donations to the victims of the deadly tornadoes that have ravaged Oklahoma. So what did the US government do to thank them? Why, they impounded the goods they sent. At least now we know how border control is keeping busy these days.
A Canadian shipment of relief goods bound for storm-ravaged Oklahoma has been stopped at the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ont.
American officials will not allow the 20,000 kilograms of food, blankets and diapers into the country until every item on board is itemized in alphabetical order and has the country of origin of every product noted.
Dennis Sauve, the volunteer co-ordinator for Windsor Lifeline Outreach and the food bank co-ordinator at the Windsor Christian Fellowship, the two organizations that gathered the goods, said it’s a “physical impossibility” to do the paperwork required in time to get the perishable food to Oklahoma before it spoils.
In the land of Obama, no good deed goes unpunished.
Mark Steyn adds “Maybe it would be quicker if they claimed to be the Canadian branch of the Barack H. Obama Foundation.” Maybe if the aid was going to a blue state, anyway. Otherwise they’re like the soup Nazi – “No soup for you!”