Atlantic Canada is carrying more than its share of the Afghanistan burden
Tue, 2007-06-05 03:30
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Atlantic Canada is carrying more than its share of the Afghanistan burden
Tue, 2007-06-05 03:30
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Another Atlantic Canadian casualty in Afghanistan. Master Cpl. Darrell Priede, a military photographer, had a photography business in Oromocto, N.B., the community near Base Gagetown that has taken too many of these hits. So has Atlantic Canada, where we supply a disproportionate percentage of Canadian troops, which in turn have been taking a disproportionate percentage of the casualties.Canada has some five per cent of the NATO contingent, but our 56 fatalities account for about a quarter of the total in the year and a half since we moved into Kandahar.
As such, Atlantic Canada is carrying more of the Afghan burden than anyone in the NATO domain and the questions of what we're doing there, whether we're making any kind of progress, and when we're coming out become more pressing with every fatality.
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/politics.shtml?sh_itm=873713d66144a838214a5d7d8d8b5... article by Ralph Surette[/url]