[sam_paine]

Q: Didn't the Canadians arrive on the Gulf Coast before American aid arrived?

A: No. They did not.

[dawn53]

Actually a small contingent of Canadians relief workers arrived in one of the outlying parishes before American troops or rescue workers, but that's because the American troops (CG, etc) were busy in NO.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07222207.htm