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   Calvin Henry-Cotnam to All   
   Re: Why no official report on Lac Megant   
   14 Jul 14 15:54:00   
   
   From: calvin@remove.daxack.ca   
      
   Clark F Morris (cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca) said...   
   >   
   >On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:00:48 -0400, Calvin Henry-Cotnam   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>I would be willing to bet that few people outside of Canada (even outside   
   >>of southern Ontario!) even heard of that accident. Lac Megantic became a   
   >>world-wide news story. With this high level profile, I highly doubt that   
   >>the report will be sooner than the same 20 months.   
   >   
   >The Via accident was major news on both TV channels and in the   
   >provincial newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia.   
      
   I didn't say it didn't make the news outside of Southern Ontario, just that   
   it likely did not receive the level of coverage that it did locally.   
      
   Now, compare that with the coverage of Lac Megantic outside of the local   
   area. Orders of magnitude greater.   
      
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