Everyone who has voted for a political party that promised to reduce red tape and regulation on companies (despite their big and getting bigger profits) and everyone who has cussed out unions because they want a decent wage for workers (despite concessions given, often futilely, over the years) bears some responsibility for the Lac-Mégantic disaster.
How can we accept that a train carrying dangerous cargo would, for even one second, be unattended?
How can we accept that a train carrying dangerous cargo would not have a backup engineer on board?
How did we come to accept that corporate profits are really more important than our lives?
How many more Lac-Mégantics will it take before “regulation” and “government oversight” are not seen as four-letter words?
Published in the Globe and Mail
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