“China is a wealthy nation and needs no financial help. They have endless resources and don’t need our rescue workers.”

It is not a matter of how rich that country is. Probably they could handle finacial problems by themselves. AIDING HELP is showing the basic sympathy to the people who lost their lives, their parents, their kids. How could our government be so cold blooded when thousands people died in such disaster. We should put all the politics aside for a moment. We alwasys blamed China has no human rights. When Chinese government is trying the best to save their people, why our media changed the voice again?

I feel shame on our Canadian government.

15010. Stacy said on May 14, 2008 <--at 11:08 pm -->

To Alphabet:

Regarding “China requested $10 million to which, Stephen Harper refused.”, could you tell me where you got the news from?

In China’s mainstream media, they have reported many countries which offered sympathy over the earthquake in China. To my surprise, Canada is not on the list.

I don’t think that Chinese government regard current Canadian government as its friend after Mr. Harper claimed his support for DaLai Lama. So, there is no way that China will ask for aids from Canadian government if Canada does not take the initiative to offer aids.

Recently, I have been worried about the estranged relationship between Canada and China. This earthquake has provided a great opportunity for Canada to normalize its relationship with China. Yet, I’m very disappointed by belated action of our government.