The people of Hamilton
look at Ottawa
with envy.
Ottawa has a Light Rail Transit.
Hamilton does not,
and would not have any
in the near future.
The Province promised them
one billion dollars for the project,
then cancelled it.
“That’s a betrayal,”
says Mayor Eisenberger.
Now Hamiltonians
are stuck with buses.
The people of Ottawa
look at Hamilton
with envy.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)