Freeland is a awful politician. If they’re going to try to stir shit up could they at least pretend to be educated on the topic.

Freeland adds she is “surprised” that BC Ferries does not have a mandate for an “appropriate level” of Canadian content in the procurement given the value of the contract, although the dollar figure hasn’t been made public.

Eby won’t stop BC Ferries from building new ships in China, but says it’s ‘not ideal’

Premier David Eby says he won’t interfere with BC Ferries’ decision to hire a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels, a move that has been panned by opposition critics and unions.

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No Canadian companies placed a bid to build the ferries. B.C.’s main shipbuilder Seaspan said it’s currently too busy building for the military, and even when it has time down the line, the company argued last September, it won’t be able to compete with countries that pay lower wages and have lower safety standards.

Maybe if the government had canceled their Disney Plus subscription they could have afforded a Canadian shipyard.

Canada doesn’t have the capacity to build these, especially at low public fund margins.

Freeland isn’t an idiot, she knows her way around trade. She’s out of her league in transportation, though, I agree.

Build a Canadian ship yard?

By burning coal to make steel, burning oil for logistics, and cutting down trees for the factory? Why dont you just fire a nuke at the planet and get it over with you climate denier. Canadians are fine with selling real-estate back and forth to each other.

Is this a reference to shipyards being shut down over environmental concerns? Has that happened much?

I think it’s about how we’d have to build a new shipyard to have a shipyard that could have bid on this as they were all booked for many years.

Yeah, but why the swipe at environmentalism? At least, I think it was a swipe. But, you know, Poe’s law.

You’re probably right.