2023-05-02 23:30:00
All Quebecers should watch Philippe Falardeau’s documentary on the Lac-Mégantic disaster. And all Quebecers should be furious.
It is the most outrageous Quebec, Canadian and North American scandal of the past 10 years.
To paraphrase Péloquin on the mural of the Grand Théâtre de Québec, I would say: “Aren’t you sick of (seeing fellow citizens) dying (because of the transport of dangerous materials by train), you gang of cellars? That’s enough ! »
THE QUESTIONS THAT KILL
Were you passionate regarding the film Erin Brockovich regarding the true story of an activist who fought once morest industrial giants? Do you love Michael Moore’s claiming documentaries that question the authorities? Have you flipped over the documentaries on the underside of the tobacco industry, for example? You haven’t seen anything yet.
I watched the four episodes of Lac-Mégantic in one go: this is not an accident, available since Tuesday on the VRAI platform and I asked myself a thousand and one questions:
– Why was MMA, which had such a poor safety record, allowed to run trains through our cities?
– Why does the Government of Canada (through Transport Canada) make us believe that it has our security at heart when it only has the well-being of the economy at heart?
– Why was there never a public inquiry into this shameless scandal?
– Why in Canada the railway companies do what they want, constituting a true State within the State?
– Why were families expropriated in Lac-Mégantic with untold contempt and arrogance?
– Why were the companies left to watch over themselves, as one of the participants in the film summed it up well: “We gave the fox custody of the chicken coop”?
– Why has all the media attention been focused on employees (like Tom Harding) when little is said regarding the immense dangers inherent in the hazardous materials rail industry?
– Why haven’t we increased security measures when the transport of oil by rail has increased by 28,000% between 2009 and 2013?
– Why, when it is prohibited in Wisconsin, Canada allows only one (ONE) employee to operate a freight train?
– Why do we accept that railway companies are as irresponsible as tobacco companies at one time: we know that our product is dangerous but we continue to turn a blind eye?
THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES
Just last week, Canada’s Transport Minister, Omar Alghabra, walked around in pink high heels to show everyone how much he cares regarding women’s causes. What is the relationship with transport? No idea.
I would really like the Minister of Transport of Canada to watch the four episodes of Philippe Falardeau’s series and explain to Canadians why the railway companies are being allowed to behave like cowboys from one end of the country to the other. Why there is still no public inquiry into the tragedy that killed 47 people.
Anyway, I would like the minister to take off his pink heels… and his pink glasses.
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