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Originally Posted by Savvy27
I don't know if you're interested, but I heard about a country somewhere in Africa where you can go and you won't have to pay taxes... I sincerely hope you try it out.
Dang.
Seriously though, she is a freelance journalist, so she wasn't in Somalia on vacation. I can't imagine casually concluding that a member of my own family should die at the hands of kidnappers, because they took a calculated risk, especially when that risk is understandable given the nature of her career.
I think Cowperson made a really good point that she should have arranged insurance before travelling there. Hell, I get travel insurance when I go to G7 countries.
Anyways, I'm happy to hear that she's back in Canada and safe. Best wishes to her in recovering from what was surely a terrifying ordeal.
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So what your saying is as a Citizen of Canada I am
obligated to cover the ransom due to
her poor decisions under the pretext of her
career otherwise you will throw me out of the country.
What if she went to climb Mount Everest without an oxygen tank and became stranded on the summit, would you suggest that I should pay to have her rescued and flown back to Canada or I can move to Tibet.
Let me be clear...she ignored warnings not to travel there and got kidnapped. As a citizen, it I am
not obligated to pay for her poor decisions. Instead of suggesting that I move to Africa, maybe she should change her career!