Railway Workers Built Canada Not Elites

Canadian troubadour Gordon Lightfoot celebrated in song the building of the transcontinental railfoad which bound together far flung provinces into a nation. He described the working men whose manual labor and physical energy produced the foundation for Canada.

I am reminded of a tour some years ago in the Roman Colosseum where the guide pointed out the features explaining the grandeur of the monumental structure. At the end, he concluded: “Remember, these were Romans, not Italians.” In the same vein, I would say to Justin Trudeau, “Remember Canada was built by working men, not by woke wienies.”