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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver
The Expo Line extension from Scott Road to King George and the Millennium Line, off of the top of my head.
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Expo Line extension to King George was approved by the Socreds and started construction just before the election they lost. If the Socreds had won that election, it would probably would have been built out to 168 St by '99.
The NDP did build the Millennium line, but cut off both ends. Everyone in the region called it the line "from nowhere to nowhere" and were very critical that it didn't terminate at Granville Street. This region would be quite different today if they had bit the bullet included a Granville terminus in Phase 1 (while construction costs were as cheap as they'll ever be again).
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Originally Posted by Yume-sama
The BC NDP lead by James shouldn't be trusted to run a community board let alone a province.
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I wouldn't let them run my Strata. The guy living in the building that trims the hedges gets paid enough already, I wouldn't want to see him get an assistant, both with 12 weeks paid vacation a year.
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Originally Posted by vanlaw
The only person/people who caused the destruction of the domestic shipbuilding industry, was the domestic shipbuilding industry itself. They sat around with their attitude of entitlement to contracts and couldn’t deliver anything on time or on budget, because they felt there was no incentive to do so (fast cats).
Is it really so bad that we got three new beautiful ferries built overseas at the best price given the great quality. Kudos to the Germans for being internationally competitive and offering a great product, shame on the BC industry for sitting around on their asses – I don’t see them as being domestically competitive, let alone internationally. Is Gordo really to blame for that????
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Well put.
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.
The NDP tried to start a ship building market, not save one. They overpaid the workers, who had other jobs to fall back on, and were unexperienced working with the materials for the Fast Cats, so they weren't very motivated (and knew that their unmotivation would actually bring them more money).
The NDP tried to use taxpayer money to start a crown corporation that would sell fast ferries on the international market, whose construction cost was subsidized by the BC taxpayer. Basically creating jobs and happy voters at a net loss to the taxpayer (IE exporting money in exchange for votes).
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Originally Posted by whatnext
So in other words Finning seems to be the only example people can think of.
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How about the almost complete devastation of the BC owned forest industry? While it's still taking hits, it's nothing like the sell off of assets to foreign interests we saw in the 90's. Kelowna, use to be an industry town, but their industry, like building trucks, left town (and is now some weird wine tourism supported construction based economy).