Canadians constitute about 0.5% of the world's total population, with an estimated total population of 36,048,521 (Q1 2016).  Despite the fact that Canada's population density is considered low, many parts in the south, such as Southern Ontario, have densities higher than several European countries.

Fort McMurray, a city of about 100,000 before the recent fire, was under a mandatory evacuation order, resulting in the evacuation of 80,000-plus residents.  According to reports from Canadian sources, the fire destroyed some 2,000 residences in the city's outermost districts and ravaged 10,000 hectares, or about 24,710 acres.

Though their population is just short of a tenth of the population of the U.S., the 36 million-plus citizens of Canada's ten provinces and three territories pay 42% annual income tax, considerably  above the average current rate of her neighbor to the south.  Even the 1% on average pay less than the average Canadian.

But what kind of government does the northern neighbor get for his buck?

Something over 80,000 people were evacuated in the teeth of a flash forest fire that has turned out to be Canada's largest.  Lest one make the mistake of thinking this was the only forest fire, we hasten to add that fires of both expected and suspicious origin flare up often in dry and windy conditions.

My colleague in the north, who lives in British Columbia and travels annually across Canada, east from Vancouver to the opposite coast, informs me that there are "many fires every year, some due to seasonal dry weather conditions" or diminished rainfall, some with causes unknown.

Shaggy-haired Justin Pierre James Trudeau, the some-say hunky 23rd prime minister of Canada, 43-year-old son of former P.M. Pierre, and the leader of the Liberal Party, rescued and fed, housed, and managed the care of these endless myriads of evacuated citizens.

Marshaling all available resources for the emergency, nine air tankers, a dozen helicopters, and 250 firefighters battled the flames.  The military was put on alert.

Contrast this with the gushing BP oil leak at the start of the Obama administration, where the company fought ineffectually to cap the oil gusher, and the administration rejected – rejected – the offers of help from the Scandinavian countries most familiar with such problems.  Marine biota was poisoned, shorelines were despoiled, and mammals lost generations to the spill.

Whatever the source of this still blazing Wallpurgisnacht in Alberta, B.C., the government has  come quickly to the aid of its citizens.  Supplies, food, shelter, and temporary housing are being provided.  Homes have opened to shelter and care for the traumatized victims, many of whom had time to just escape with their lives and little else.

To date, the fire has burned forest over 500,000 hectares (1,235,527 acres) of land across northern Alberta.  The still burning fire stretches 370 miles long.

Homes in the denuded areas where the fire has been finally quelled are already undergoing attempts to be rebuilt.

The point of this exercise in empathy with our ally and neighbor to the north is to compare the  U.S. reaction to a parallel circumstance.

Could the U.S. find shelter for 80K of her citizens?  (Probably, kaff kaff, but only if they were transgender.  Or, now, aliens trespassing our borders and reaping the handsome dividends of illegality under the administration more partial to outsiders than our own citizens.)

Could the U.S. government provide soap, toiletries, and basic household products for an equal number of her citizens in need?  Katrina was a prime example of the answer.  No.  Mobile homes were sent for and parked where presumed refugees from the floodplains of St. Louis had forced  thousands out of their homes.  These mobile homes were almost instantly found to be exhaling toxic fumes, and thousands are still left, moldering and unused, at a cost of  millions of taxpayer dollars per R.V. and abandoned and unused mobile home.

This raises the question: even a nation as great as the United States seems to have no contingency plan for such ghastly circumstances, worrying, instead, about the nonexistent  inanity and unproven wraith of "climate change."

While it's true that the Canadian population, at over 36 million, is a ninth of the U.S.'s at 330 million, they reap serious benefits for their buck, no matter the political stripe of the reigning  Canadian prime ministerial administration.

Did Pres. Obama do that with oil leaks, raging Hurricane Sandy, or other natural disasters impacting our population?  (Bear-hugging Chris Christie does not count as aid.)

Because the fire caused major oil companies Suncor, Syncrude, and Shell to voluntarily cease operations while the control effort is under way, the mass evacuation caused huge traffic jams, especially around gas stations, where drivers sometimes waited hours to fill up.  With some pumps in the 360 miles between Edmonton and Fort McMurray to the north now empty, the Alberta government sent a tanker under guard to help rescue stranded motorists.  The oil companies also offered their camps to evacuees, bungalow community camps usually occupied by Canadian workers and foreign oilers during boomier times.

Would President Obama think to do similarly?

Can we be sure, given the evidence to the contrary over a series of mishaps and weather catastrophes, that the U.S. could do for her citizenry what the Canadian government – even a liberal hothead determined to scathe the longtime Conservative tenure of Stephen Harper – is doing with efficiency and dispatch for its own people?

Sadly, Canada has its own seething Benedict Arnolds (or mirror-image Hussein Obamas): Trudeau committed just $30 million to the 88,000 victims of Fort McMurray's epic blaze – but lavished $1.2 billion to just 25,000 invasive rape-fugees, as they are now labeled among many of the punditoria of the EU, from ISIS- and Alawite-torn Syria.