Editorial: B.C. Ferries' vessels should be built in BC (Times Colonist)

BC Ferries has decided to buy four more Island class boats to serve the Nanaimo-Gabriola Island and Campbell River-Quadra Island routes . . . .

. . . . Here’s the problem. All four boats will be built at a Romanian shipyard. And this makes no sense. Romania is a tiny nation with an even tinier seaboard on the Black Sea. The country’s entire GDP is less than BC’s.

Its two port cities are smaller, combined, than the population of Greater Victoria, and a mere seventh the size of Vancouver’s. So how can such a small economy beat out local yards here at home?

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