Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew says it may be too expensive to send the Canadian Forces' Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Haiti, CBC's The National reported today.
DART provides medical care and clean drinking water in disaster areas, both of which are needed in Haiti in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne.
Pettigrew headed for Port-au-Prince on Tuesday to survey the damage left by Jeanne. Canada has already pledged about $3 million in relief aid to Haiti, but so far the government has not offered to send in the DART team, but neither has Haiti or the UN asked, the CBC said.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development on Thursday pledged $2 million in aid and sent an additional $153,000 in desperately needed emergency supplies to Haiti.
The announcement significantly boosted the amount of emergency aid to Haiti, from the $60,000 the agency pledged two days ago.
Over 2,000 people, at least 300 of them must have been children. So why isn't this as evil, as horrifying as Beslan? Because there was no human intention.
It isn't the dead that matter, it's why they died. And yet to the natural world, which is what killed these already desperately hungry people, intention means very little when it means anything at all.
A harmless butterfly discovers itself to be marked like a poisonous one, and it gets left alone by the birds that eat its brothers and sisters, and so it breeds more like itself, and they get left alone too. The Viceroy, the Monarch. That's how it works.
People take care of each other, that works for us, it means we have more time, more energy. Or, sometimes we take care of each other, some of us do, for some others of us.
