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Originally Posted by Parallex
The immediate and IMO appropriate response to said tweet was to point out that it was built with the shameful use of near slave labour.
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I guess my big issue with that assertion is that you're taking modern morals and beliefs and judging that past period with them.
But at the same time we are preventing Canadian companies with modern morals and beliefs from building something important and doing it to our standards, but because of all the NIMBY's they'd rather not do that and prefer instead to purchase Foreign oil from totalitarian and non-Democratic regimes.
You see, in Canada we dont really go in big for slavery all that much anymore. Saudi Arabia? China? Middle East? Can you say the say the same of them?
Its actually kind of hilariously naive and misguided.
"We're better than that now so we're going to undercut ourselves and our beliefs and instead support people who arent!"
If people want to condemn the use of 'borderline slavery' to build the railroads 100 years ago thats fine, then why are they making the same mistake in regards to Oil right now?
These self-righteous people clearly have not been paying attention because it seems evident they havent learned anything.