THE CN STRIKE WAS DEJA VIEW ALL OVER AGAIN. The employer worked hard to make the workers the badest of bad guys, as usual—and the media bought it, as usual. Facts never entered into it.
THEY WERE THE PERFECT MARKS. Just what Esvin Paredes was looking for: few of the eleven men could read or write, most couldn’t speak English, they were “foreigners”, over 3000 kilometres from home, the law gave them no rights. Paredes swooped in.
