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> Ah, so you are projecting your own society's ideals onto another which wasn't always how it was.

To the extent that those ideals are “migrant worker’s lives should not be treated as expendable”, hell yes I am. (FWIW I’m Canadian, not American)

Your attempt at positioning that as some sort of cultural chauvinism is weird.

Canada had its own history of migrant workers. More than 4000 Chinese migrants died building our railroads:

Absolutely, I don't mean to imply that Canada is blameless, just that my point of view is not a projection of exclusively US-centric values.