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Originally Posted by BCPhil
...Another thing to remember is that there never was a SHIP building industry. Except for some WWII era supply ships and the occasional ferry, BCers never built ships. The BC Ship building industry died in 1949. We build tugs and fishing boats, and we REPAIR ships. And that industry is still going strong. In fact, that's why their bid to build the new ferries was so high, because all shipbuilders are actually employed building private boats, or repairing cruise ships. To build the new ferries in a timely fashion, would have required paying them enough to attract them away from the jobs they already had or bring in migrant workers from other ship building locals. But the local ship building industry was used for what it's good at: the ferries arrived empty and were completed in BC. Same with the other ships that were acquired internationally; local industry was used to modify and complete them..
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Really? That will come as news to the British Columbians who built the entire BC Ferries fleet up to the misguided Campbell years. Of course, in keeping with the typical anti-NDP hysteria, some like to focus solely on the fast ferries.