Canada demands apology over Fox TV Afghan comments
By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News Service,
March 23, 2009 OTTAWA
— As the bodies of Canada's four latest war dead returned from Afghanistan on Monday, the federal government demanded that the U.S. TV network Fox News apologize for airing a weekend panel discussion that mocks Canada's contribution to the NATO-led mission.The Fox item has provoked a storm of outrage among Canadians who were offended by the broadcast, which originally aired overnight on the weekend, but has since taken on a new life on the Internet."We want an apology from this so-called comedian and his panel. These are despicable, hurtful and ignorant comments. No one is laughing and they owe Canada, and more importantly the families of each one of our fallen heroes, an apology for their ill-informed mistakes," Dan Dugas, the spokesman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay, told Canwest News ...
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