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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Railroads are pretty much essential infrastructure and government involvement in keeping trains running is not government over step in my book. This was enforcement of a mediated agreement after giving a lot of months to work it out. It wasn't forcing them to take what the companies were offering.
Where is your line? Do you let utility workers strike and turn off all the electricity or gas until they get what they want? Doctors, police, ambulance workers?
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Maybe leaving essential infrastructure in the hands of 3 major corporations is a bad idea then?
And no, I obviously don't think essential services should be able to completely suspend operations if it poses a public safety issue. We have laws in Canada against that.