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Willful Blindness?

 

Regulatory Failures Behind the Lac-Mégantic Disaster

This report, by CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell details eight key ways in which regulatory failure contributed to the Lac-Mégantic disaster. It chronicles how Canada’s federal regulatory regime failed – directly and indirectly – to prevent corporate negligence, for which the citizens of Lac-Mégantic paid a terrible price.

The report calls for an independent inquiry into the disaster. Part of the challenge in preventing another Lac-Mégantic is to keep the spotlight on its root causes – corporate negligence and regulatory failure – and hold to account those responsible, including those at the highest level of the responsibility pyramid.

To read a blog post based on the report, go to: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/new-report-chronicles-regulatory-failures-behind-lac-mégantic

– See more at: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/willful-blindness

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