Dear Premier David Eby, Prime Minister Mark Carney, and B.C. Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth:
We demand our province cancel forthwith our wrong-minded contract with a Chinese firm to build our four new B.C. ferries.
Details were posted on Black Press' Today In B.C. website June 11, 2025.
The Chinese government is a brutal communist regime harming Canada’s economy while committing human-rights' abuses. China does not morally nor politically deserve our plum contract.
The first choice for such contracts must go to British Columbian shipbuilding firms so our province can potentially reap the long list of jobs involved. If labour strife, bureaucracy, technological snags or other issues surface, our government must prudently then seek bids from various other provinces and countries.
This questionable contract is a slap in the face to B.C. taxpayers, our skilled workers, and victims of the Chinese regime. While our province touts plans to grow and diversity our struggling economy, this deal is simply hypocritical. It’s also shameful B.C. Ferries, a publicly owned Crown corporation, declines to tell us how much taxpayers are paying for these ships.
The tragic punchline is the toxic carbon footprint to deliver these four ships will predictably be horrendous.
