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Originally Posted by Parallex
I think it is. Requiring "social license" (aside: I hate that term) is part of what can help prevent moral atrocities such as that from occurring (of course what constitutes moral atrocities changes from era to era). That Kenney chose to ignore the moral hazards that occurred in making that project come to fruition says something about him as a political figure that's well worth pointing out.
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Nonsense. Things have progressed. We have something called a Charter. Never mind the rule of law.
Social license is so amorphous and vague that it does nothing to address real environmental or labour related problems.
The fact is, moral hazards or not, the railway was built, and allowed for the Chinese Canadian community to thrive and prosper in ways that it would never had otherwise.