Reply #6: I don't know about the Mounties [View All]

[JohnyCanuck]

but the Canadian rescue team from Vancouver went in after the BC provincial gov't offered their help to the Louisiana state government (the offer of the team's help previously made by the Canadian gov't to the US State Department had been turned down, IIRC).

Being the cynic that I am, I suspect one important factor in the US turning down foreign assistance is they don' want "ferriners" in the area to photograph and report back to foreign media on the real extent of the disaster and the loss of life.