text: That's great and all, but this feel good story loses a bit of it's lustre when the average Canadian goes home at the end of the day. They may be reading this story on their tablet in their living room. They periodically look up to glance at the television that is on in the background while the children play nearby, below the Christmas tree. Then it dawns on the Canadian that the tablet, the tv, the Christmas tree with its lights and decorations, the presents under the tree and just about all of the consumer goods in their home came from a cargo container from India or East Asia...  
  This Christmas season, I hope that people realize that Christmas Town is really a factory in East Asia in a country with lax labour laws and environmental policies. Elves refer to the exploited child labour used by the manufacturers to produce our wonderful, inexpensive, disposable goods. Oh, and Santa's sleigh, a container ship...