Update: The Death Toll In The Canadian Oil Train Disaster will be 67+

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7. What a piece of work this guy the chairman of the railway co, Burkhardt is.

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But his company has been criticized for its initial response to the incident, and for being slow to speak publicly. The first statement on the incident arrived 36 hours after the derailment and explosion demolished the downtown core.

“I think that speaks for itself,” said the NDP’s Thomas Mulcair, leader of the federal opposition, when he toured the town on Sunday.

And François Legault, head of the provincial Coalition Avenir Québec party and former president of Air Transat, also weighed in on Monday about corporate responsibility. “In a disaster,” he said, ”the president’s job is to be there — even if he doesn’t have all the answers.”

For his part, Burkhardt, speaking by phone from Chicago, said he had been active all weekend in the aftermath of the explosion and that he was planning a trip to Lac-Mégantic in the near future. He also said that more help was on the way.

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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/montreal/M%C3%A9gantic+Montreal+Maine+Atlantic+Railway+chairman/8631093/story.html