Dan, you've laid it all out perfectly for the untrained eyes who refuse to see Eby, Freeland's and the rest of their twisted supporters to UNDERSTAND where the deception and lies begin and end, it's with the TRAITORS of this country. No one can refute that BILLION DOLLARS will go into refueling China's economy as it's teetering on the edge, while we slowly tank. Not only that, it's definitely looking like it's the LINK in the communist chain that's tugging BC ever closer to being a full on 'state' of China, is it not? Can we all now ADMIT the UNIVERSITY degrees that most high level public servants possess came with a subtle indoctrination into leaning on the ideologies of socialist-communist regimes spurred on decades ago with Trudeau Sr.'s EMBRACE of Mao? As for MP Will Greaves calling to hold off on the gathering of the deceptors to 'discuss' who's the bigger TRAITOR in the pack, expect nothing less from Greaves as he apparently was all IN for defunding Victoria's police. Yup, he's a 'man of the people' like the rest, they're for the 'people' all right, not OUR people.
The CIB should be scraped, it can not do anything the BOC can not do, the BOC can issue a debt free, interest free Canadian Dollar, the BOC issued our own currency, built infrastructure, built Canada debt free interest free until 1978, when Pierre Trudeau gave the control of Canada’s dollar to the BIS, started borrowing money with interest from the BIS, this is Canada’s opportunity to reclaim Canada back from the corrupt clutches of the BIS and Liberals, this is not just about the China loan, this is about Canadian Sovereignty, Freedom and Rights the future of Canada, our children’s, grandchildren’s, great grandchildren’s future inheritance of Canada, a Canada they can be proud of, true north strong and free, not some Carney / Trudeau, Woke, Liberal bullshit that we live in now, God Bless and Save Canada.
Smells like someone(s) lining their pockets. Someone needs to go to the shipyards in canada and after that in USA or England or others and see if their are alternatives. If not why not. If not then regardless guarantee loans so a shipyard could be built that can do these things in Canada we built 300 or 400 corvettes anti submarine in ww2 and we cant build four ferries in a reasonable times. We could have our own fleet to move grain and iron ore on the great lakes. We need to get our heads out of the sand.
That's one of the first things I noticed. From what I've read, these electric batteries can be prone to catch fire, and when they do the result is a disaster as they are almost impossible to put out. Imagine being on one of those . It's over and out. What liability does BCFerries have? Or other entities tied to them..the Liberal government will do their best to deep six inquiries , as they have and are doing with myriad other scandals . Their tactic? Obfuscate, stall, excuse, tell falsehoods. And hope it will all magically disappear.
Well, you can't make steel without coal. Yet anyway. That seems kind of a moot point that shouldn't be part of any argument. Would you be more accepting if the ferry contract were given to a European ship builder? I've said it before but I guess it bears repeating: due to the NSS, there are no Canadian shipyards with capacity for the next decade at least. So are you suggesting that Canadian taxpayers pay to create a whole new shipyard? Seaspan's president said the cost to build the ferries as speced in Canada would be an order of magnitude higher than the Chinese proposed price. 10 times more. If they could be built, which currently is not possible. I understand the whole Chinese thing and it is problematic, but surely you and everyone else is not suggesting that these ships be built in a non-existent shipyard (or one to be created specifically for this project) at taxpayer expense at a cost 10 times higher? are you suggesting that? As a taxpayer I protest that idea. Would the feds delay all of the (already long overdue) NSS work to fit in a bunch of BC ferry builds? Doesn't seem likely. A shipyard needs tooling up depending on the job, and in the case of the NSS work, taxpayers paid for that as well.
no Canadian company bid. They couldn't meet the time requirements on the project because they are busy. The one thing that's missing amongst all this political and public outrage is an alternative proposal. What is BCF supposed to do? On the one hand they get castigated because of not enough passenger and vehicle capacity and people seem to want to be able to travel for free because of some misbegotten notion that the ferry system is part of the highway (news flash: it's not and it never has been), and on the other hand when they try to get ships build economically that pisses people off too. seems like a big pile of circular shit for BCF.
well, I voted Conservative provincially and federally, but this just seems to be an argument that is based more on bashing the other guy and showing appropriate public outrage than it does anything else. No solutions.
US have found unexplained devices in equipment ordered from Communist China. Reuters reported. What do you think they might monitor using ferries? Few understand BC Ferries is the extension of HWY 1, the federal road system. There is no excuse for a decision like this, and this should require no inquiry. There is no passing the buck. BC and Ottawa work in lockstep. Figure that out. Both compromised. There are still CCP compromised MPs sitting in parliament never disclosed. Dot, dot dot…….
What’s next. Time they were charged with “treason”. That’s a word, it does exist in policing. If the little Canadians ever find out how they have been sold out maybe they would not vote liberal. Anything attached to Eby is already sold out. Media won’t tell you, I will. The corruption is vast. Stolen elections have a price, this is just one payment. My opinion, based on years connecting endless dots.
Excellent column Dan Knight. We can hope and pray that August 6th, will bring the reckoning that the Liberals deserve. Canadians do deserve better and maybe we can then forgive those who supported the Liberal base in the first place. Power corrupts. This proves it. I hope the fire burning is hotter than hell because it needs to be!
Everybody is outraged, but the facts remain that BC Ferries needs new ferries and Eastern ferries have come from this same shipyards without a peep. Rather than get all in a dither we should see alternatives or better yet a real strategy for establishing a true shipbuilding industry in this country. Until now our strategy has been to let the industry rot then order a bunch of navy vessels and pay for the industry to rebuild itself to meet that demand then forget about it for another 30 or so years. After our current frigates are built we should start turning out 1 or 2 ships per year. The navy needs more ships, heck the whole RCN could be on the Pacific and it would be too much. Add to that coast guard and provincial fleets and schedule them out properly and there could be a case for a vital shipbuilding industry in this country.
Chinese economy is collapsing under Xi’s dreams. Even their newest buildings and infrastructures are crumbling. And Canada gives them 1B$ for electric ferries?
It’s like investing in a company who plans to go bankrupt in its own country. And Trudeau did just that with Northvolts!!!
Green Slush Funds and Green policies are engulfing our taxes. Is that what we voted for? NO!
RBC and TD are also known to harbour countless money laundering accounts of Triades’ Chinese mafia.
To me, these transactions are fraudulent. I’d ask what is the relationship between these people and the LIEberals, and who owns Canada’s debt? This should be enough to discredit Carney and his Party.
This is a Conservative hir job. No mention of the fact thst no Canadian companies wanted to bid.
Attributing the decision to Ottawa, when the signature on the dotted line is BC premier David Eby.
And crappy research about Canada's ferry infrastructure, because it talks about Quebec, but makes no mention of the struggles of Prince Edward Island to get a ferry replaced ( yup, the bridge isn't the only way over from away, one whole half of the Island relies on ferry service for 7-8 months of the year) and nothing about improving service to Newfoundland, either.
With parliament shut down, now that Carney and the Liberals have passed Bill C-5 to give them more power - good luck on getting any answers or accountability on this from the Liberals. The Conservatives should be working 24/7 on building consensus with some Liberal and Bloc MPs to bring forth and win a non-confidence vote, when and if parliament resumes again. A big if at this point.
Such a long and thorough article, but you forgot to mention anywhere that there were no bids from any of the Canadian shipyards.
Do you not believe that this is an important detail? Or does this fact not matter?
Very disappointing, yet perhaps not surprising.
The focus is not about why there were no domestic bids, but rather on the performative display of the Conservatives and painting them as the only adults in the room.
And to echo a bit of what Alison posted earlier, your article ignores any nuance, any details regarding existing domestic capacity or about the extra cost and delay that would be caused by selecting a domestic supplier.
Sure, bring it home and provide some jobs for some time. But would this outweigh the economic benefit to the BC economy by having the ships earlier and at a lower cost?
There is so much missing from this article that makes it clear to me your objective is not to report “News”, but to bash the Liberals.
The amount of spin is dizzying.
Dan, you definitely nailed it here as a case study in opposition.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder that is.
Your post is complete tripe. Please pass my disregards to the CPC.
Read Reuter’s reporting re US discovery of devices implanted in Chinese products, such as solar panels to monitor, track, etc. It is naive, naive to believe that this would not happen with a major project such as ferries. History in BC will highlight decades of CCP influence few understand because no one tells them, except Cooper at The Bureau. This has nothing to do with local contractors, everything to do with pay offs. The only fact you need to understand. Oh, and they also corrupt elections.
When they are finished with the Ferry Fiasco they can then investigate why EBY IS USING CHINESE STEEL TO REBUILD THE PATELLO BRIDGE!!!😡
Dan, you've laid it all out perfectly for the untrained eyes who refuse to see Eby, Freeland's and the rest of their twisted supporters to UNDERSTAND where the deception and lies begin and end, it's with the TRAITORS of this country. No one can refute that BILLION DOLLARS will go into refueling China's economy as it's teetering on the edge, while we slowly tank. Not only that, it's definitely looking like it's the LINK in the communist chain that's tugging BC ever closer to being a full on 'state' of China, is it not? Can we all now ADMIT the UNIVERSITY degrees that most high level public servants possess came with a subtle indoctrination into leaning on the ideologies of socialist-communist regimes spurred on decades ago with Trudeau Sr.'s EMBRACE of Mao? As for MP Will Greaves calling to hold off on the gathering of the deceptors to 'discuss' who's the bigger TRAITOR in the pack, expect nothing less from Greaves as he apparently was all IN for defunding Victoria's police. Yup, he's a 'man of the people' like the rest, they're for the 'people' all right, not OUR people.
The CIB should be scraped, it can not do anything the BOC can not do, the BOC can issue a debt free, interest free Canadian Dollar, the BOC issued our own currency, built infrastructure, built Canada debt free interest free until 1978, when Pierre Trudeau gave the control of Canada’s dollar to the BIS, started borrowing money with interest from the BIS, this is Canada’s opportunity to reclaim Canada back from the corrupt clutches of the BIS and Liberals, this is not just about the China loan, this is about Canadian Sovereignty, Freedom and Rights the future of Canada, our children’s, grandchildren’s, great grandchildren’s future inheritance of Canada, a Canada they can be proud of, true north strong and free, not some Carney / Trudeau, Woke, Liberal bullshit that we live in now, God Bless and Save Canada.
As Don Cherry would say about these politicians…
“ they’re in the trolley tracks”….
This should be very entertaining.
What a bunch of egg sucking dogs !
Smells like someone(s) lining their pockets. Someone needs to go to the shipyards in canada and after that in USA or England or others and see if their are alternatives. If not why not. If not then regardless guarantee loans so a shipyard could be built that can do these things in Canada we built 300 or 400 corvettes anti submarine in ww2 and we cant build four ferries in a reasonable times. We could have our own fleet to move grain and iron ore on the great lakes. We need to get our heads out of the sand.
As someone who has spent much of a life on boats in the ocean, I sure wouldn’t wanna go on a boat that is full of Chinese made batteries.
You know the third pole on a plug electrical plug is to ground it to earth.
Well, there’s no earth in the ocean and electricity travels through water like crazy.
They may be politically correct, but there are a disaster waiting to happen.
That's one of the first things I noticed. From what I've read, these electric batteries can be prone to catch fire, and when they do the result is a disaster as they are almost impossible to put out. Imagine being on one of those . It's over and out. What liability does BCFerries have? Or other entities tied to them..the Liberal government will do their best to deep six inquiries , as they have and are doing with myriad other scandals . Their tactic? Obfuscate, stall, excuse, tell falsehoods. And hope it will all magically disappear.
.
Kinda like a EV Plane with no actual pilot!
Well, you can't make steel without coal. Yet anyway. That seems kind of a moot point that shouldn't be part of any argument. Would you be more accepting if the ferry contract were given to a European ship builder? I've said it before but I guess it bears repeating: due to the NSS, there are no Canadian shipyards with capacity for the next decade at least. So are you suggesting that Canadian taxpayers pay to create a whole new shipyard? Seaspan's president said the cost to build the ferries as speced in Canada would be an order of magnitude higher than the Chinese proposed price. 10 times more. If they could be built, which currently is not possible. I understand the whole Chinese thing and it is problematic, but surely you and everyone else is not suggesting that these ships be built in a non-existent shipyard (or one to be created specifically for this project) at taxpayer expense at a cost 10 times higher? are you suggesting that? As a taxpayer I protest that idea. Would the feds delay all of the (already long overdue) NSS work to fit in a bunch of BC ferry builds? Doesn't seem likely. A shipyard needs tooling up depending on the job, and in the case of the NSS work, taxpayers paid for that as well.
Hey Alison,
Did you notice how long that article was and yet no mention about no Canadian company bids? If there was, I couldn’t find it.
And you are spot on with your comments. There is an immediate need.
But the facts don’t seem to matter to a lot of people. No mention of why there were no Canadian bidders and the root cause of that.
No mention of the economics, etc.
Anyway. Good comment.
no Canadian company bid. They couldn't meet the time requirements on the project because they are busy. The one thing that's missing amongst all this political and public outrage is an alternative proposal. What is BCF supposed to do? On the one hand they get castigated because of not enough passenger and vehicle capacity and people seem to want to be able to travel for free because of some misbegotten notion that the ferry system is part of the highway (news flash: it's not and it never has been), and on the other hand when they try to get ships build economically that pisses people off too. seems like a big pile of circular shit for BCF.
Gonna post on the main thread… give me a few.
Yups. The article is all about Liberal bashing. Nothing else. The amount of spin in it is dizzying.
well, I voted Conservative provincially and federally, but this just seems to be an argument that is based more on bashing the other guy and showing appropriate public outrage than it does anything else. No solutions.
Right. You do you.
Personally, I was gonna vote BQ because I was tired of Trudeau. As a red Tory, I do have some conservative leanings.
What we have here, branded as “News”, is just more of the same political rhetoric straight out of the Harper playbook.
IMHO, the CPC is lost in their own quagmire. I can’t vote for the leader, so I am out until such time that they straighten out.
We cannot have the kind of American style politics here.
We need the conservatives to behave like adults and occupy their rightful place.
US have found unexplained devices in equipment ordered from Communist China. Reuters reported. What do you think they might monitor using ferries? Few understand BC Ferries is the extension of HWY 1, the federal road system. There is no excuse for a decision like this, and this should require no inquiry. There is no passing the buck. BC and Ottawa work in lockstep. Figure that out. Both compromised. There are still CCP compromised MPs sitting in parliament never disclosed. Dot, dot dot…….
What’s next. Time they were charged with “treason”. That’s a word, it does exist in policing. If the little Canadians ever find out how they have been sold out maybe they would not vote liberal. Anything attached to Eby is already sold out. Media won’t tell you, I will. The corruption is vast. Stolen elections have a price, this is just one payment. My opinion, based on years connecting endless dots.
Excellent column Dan Knight. We can hope and pray that August 6th, will bring the reckoning that the Liberals deserve. Canadians do deserve better and maybe we can then forgive those who supported the Liberal base in the first place. Power corrupts. This proves it. I hope the fire burning is hotter than hell because it needs to be!
Everybody is outraged, but the facts remain that BC Ferries needs new ferries and Eastern ferries have come from this same shipyards without a peep. Rather than get all in a dither we should see alternatives or better yet a real strategy for establishing a true shipbuilding industry in this country. Until now our strategy has been to let the industry rot then order a bunch of navy vessels and pay for the industry to rebuild itself to meet that demand then forget about it for another 30 or so years. After our current frigates are built we should start turning out 1 or 2 ships per year. The navy needs more ships, heck the whole RCN could be on the Pacific and it would be too much. Add to that coast guard and provincial fleets and schedule them out properly and there could be a case for a vital shipbuilding industry in this country.
Chinese economy is collapsing under Xi’s dreams. Even their newest buildings and infrastructures are crumbling. And Canada gives them 1B$ for electric ferries?
It’s like investing in a company who plans to go bankrupt in its own country. And Trudeau did just that with Northvolts!!!
Green Slush Funds and Green policies are engulfing our taxes. Is that what we voted for? NO!
RBC and TD are also known to harbour countless money laundering accounts of Triades’ Chinese mafia.
To me, these transactions are fraudulent. I’d ask what is the relationship between these people and the LIEberals, and who owns Canada’s debt? This should be enough to discredit Carney and his Party.
Close to the US Atlantic coast:
Chinese buying anything in Maine
https://rumble.com/v6vtdo1-this-guy-used-sound-and-light-and-a-child-appeared.html?e9s=rel_v2_ep
Chinese drug and human trafficking cartel operating 600ft from Port Authority:
https://rumble.com/v6vtfev-chinese-drug-and-human-trafficking-ops-operated-within-600ft-of-customs.html?e9s=src_v1_eh_cs&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=joegecko%27s%20Documentary%20Channel
In China:
China Is Eating Itself Alive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfl75X09_BE
680,000 Chinese Took Over Ghana’s Gold — But Ghana Is Finally Fighting Back!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFz3nmo0_c
This is a Conservative hir job. No mention of the fact thst no Canadian companies wanted to bid.
Attributing the decision to Ottawa, when the signature on the dotted line is BC premier David Eby.
And crappy research about Canada's ferry infrastructure, because it talks about Quebec, but makes no mention of the struggles of Prince Edward Island to get a ferry replaced ( yup, the bridge isn't the only way over from away, one whole half of the Island relies on ferry service for 7-8 months of the year) and nothing about improving service to Newfoundland, either.
Pardon me, but your bias is showing.
With parliament shut down, now that Carney and the Liberals have passed Bill C-5 to give them more power - good luck on getting any answers or accountability on this from the Liberals. The Conservatives should be working 24/7 on building consensus with some Liberal and Bloc MPs to bring forth and win a non-confidence vote, when and if parliament resumes again. A big if at this point.
Hey Dan and The Opposition,
Such a long and thorough article, but you forgot to mention anywhere that there were no bids from any of the Canadian shipyards.
Do you not believe that this is an important detail? Or does this fact not matter?
Very disappointing, yet perhaps not surprising.
The focus is not about why there were no domestic bids, but rather on the performative display of the Conservatives and painting them as the only adults in the room.
And to echo a bit of what Alison posted earlier, your article ignores any nuance, any details regarding existing domestic capacity or about the extra cost and delay that would be caused by selecting a domestic supplier.
Sure, bring it home and provide some jobs for some time. But would this outweigh the economic benefit to the BC economy by having the ships earlier and at a lower cost?
There is so much missing from this article that makes it clear to me your objective is not to report “News”, but to bash the Liberals.
The amount of spin is dizzying.
Dan, you definitely nailed it here as a case study in opposition.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder that is.
Your post is complete tripe. Please pass my disregards to the CPC.
Read Reuter’s reporting re US discovery of devices implanted in Chinese products, such as solar panels to monitor, track, etc. It is naive, naive to believe that this would not happen with a major project such as ferries. History in BC will highlight decades of CCP influence few understand because no one tells them, except Cooper at The Bureau. This has nothing to do with local contractors, everything to do with pay offs. The only fact you need to understand. Oh, and they also corrupt elections.