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June 14, 2005

French carrier group departs from Halifax

The French navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its escorting vessels left Halifax after an uneventful stay. The Halifax Daily News reported:

Au revoir, mes amis. Bon voyage. Through a thick blanket of fog, the 3,000 sailors of a French aircraft carrier's battle group slid out of Halifax Harbour yesterday.

The whirlwind four-day visit by the French and British sailors was everything local businesses — and police — were hoping for. Euros flowed into local coffers, and sailors stayed out of local jails.

Paul MacKinnon, executive director of the Downtown Halifax Business Commission, said yesterday that while bars and restaurants did well, so too did retailers.

Hat tip to SOMNIA.

Posted by Nicholas at June 14, 2005 08:10 PM
Comments
A nuclear powered ship with nuclear warheads ties up in Halifax. Where was greenpeace? where was the Raging grannies? where was the breathless reports in the media showing how many canucks would die in a nuclear reactor accident? Whoops! Silly me! It's a French ship. Long as it is not American we don't have to care, right? Posted by: buckahed at June 16, 2005 04:28 AM
Exactly. French nuclear power is politically clean, so there's no constituency for protesting against it. Plus, the French have proven that they aren't willing to let Greenpeace float around, causing trouble. Greenpeace organizers aren't stupid enough to give the French a second crack, but they know the Americans would never attack them pre-emptively. Posted by: Nicholas at June 16, 2005 08:34 AM


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