Tag: Lac-Megantic

It’s not clear any Conservatives actually read damning Lac-Mégantic report

Published August 20, 2014

Just tell people you haven’t gotten around to reading the report yet. Because if you haven’t read it, it hasn’t happened yet. That appears to be the Conservatives’ bright idea on how to defend themselves against Tuesday’s damning Transporation Safety Board report that concluded Transport Canada’s weak oversight was a cause and contributing factor in […]

These National Post headlines about Lac-Mégantic sure look stupid today

Published August 19, 2014

Don’t regulate safety — incentivize it! Bigger government isn’t safer government! Lac-Mégantic no safety crisis on Canada’s rails, the only ’emergency’ is runaway regulation! Remember the headlines in the days and weeks following the Lac-Mégantic train derailment carrying highly explosive crude that left 47 dead — when conservative champions of small government attacked people for identifying […]

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