At Indian school, children died quickly after eating poisoned meal
...OOPS! WAIT A MINUTE! The report is about children in India not children in Canada. What we have here is an example of media haste and a lack of verification in the editorial ranks.
...but before we take after Harper we ask is it possible there are governments in the world that are more "corrupt" than Canada's?
Remember The Bhopal Disaster?
Well, forget most of what you were told...
...the standard accounts also omit to mention that the decision to use the hazardous chemical MIC was the Indian government's, not Union Carbide's; that government directives also required the building of larger rather smaller facilities; that the Indian government was also pursuing an affirmative action programme, replacing Union Carbide's foreign experts in engineering and agricultural chemistry with locals; and, finally, that the decision to situate the chemical plant in the middle of a residential community was the Indian government's, not Union Carbide's, exacerbated by a re-zoning policy that included giving thousands of construction loans to encourage Indians to build their homes near the chemical plant...h/t Adrian
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