Don Cherry: ‘Are We Nuts?’ Tweet Gets Controversial

Don Cherry: ‘Are We Nuts?’ tweet has gone controversial. The controversial star of Hockey Night in Canada was blunt in one tweet: “Are we nuts?” when he learned about the tens of millions of dollars in aid his country sent to the earthquake-battered Haiti.

“You know, I am one of those guys, like most people in Canada, we like to help the countries all over the world. But sometimes it makes you wonder,” Don Cherry tweets under his Twitter handle of @CoachsCornerCBC.

“Maybe it’s just me. But Canada gave Haiti 49.5 million dollars last year. Are we nuts?”

Cherry says he doesn’t mind helping other countries — but he wonders why Ottawa would send so much cash to Haiti when people are waiting for up to 10 hours in Canadian hospital waiting rooms.