For example, while this year's collection of goods is proceeding roughly as in years past, the T4P shipment from last year is still stuck in a bonded warehouse.
If that's the case, what are we going to do?" For the time being, Acton says, T4P is in a holding pattern.
Kwan says a decision was taken to increase regional autonomy among T4P committees, "in terms of taking different political positions, how closely we wanted to identify with the FSLN or not."
There are more than eighty-five local T4P committees throughout Canada, and scores of solidarity committees, outreach organizations and lobbying groups opposed to U.S.
"Canadians were very much aware of the illegality of American involvement in Vietnam, and it's still very strong in our consciousness,' said Barbara Stewart, Southern Ontario and Toronto area coordinator of T4P. "We are not a military or imperial power, and we don't accept the strident military posturing of the United States.
To insure that the support continues, T4P has embarked on a lobbying campaign, to coincide with the departure of the next shipment of aid in late January.