Recently, it's begun to feel too uncomfortably Third Worldish here in Canada. Our flood-protection systems can’t protect us. Our electricity is iffy. Our roads and bridges are crumbling. Our pipes and sewers are in desperate need of repair. People in major metropolitan areas (Montreal is the latest case) are told to boil their water. And now Lac-Mégantic, an industrial disaster of the tragic scale you’d expect to see in India, not here. Dozens dead, at least partly because of an outdated rail network whose maintenance and safety systems have deteriorated just as the delivery of crude oil by tanker train has vastly expanded.
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