Why Did Bowland Really Leave BC Ferries?

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So why did the newly hired BC Ferries Safety Officer leave the corporation two days after the sinking of the Queen Of The North back in March.

Clearly, from his Statement Of Claim, Mr. Bowland has taken exception to the Corporation's Press Release at the time* that stated he resigned for 'personal reasons'.

And for his part, once again demonstrating his penchant for the 'benign' obfuscation, BC Ferries CEO David Hahn apparently had this to say when questioned about the specifics surrounding Mr. Bowland's 'resignation':

"I'm not going to answer that question...." Hahn said. "You know, there are all sorts of e-mails around that stuff, there's documentation on all that and I think we have to leave that to the court."


Whatever.

And in the meantime Mr. Hahn is preparing to ram through his third fuel surcharge in the past year which, when coupled with the unregulatable increases in 'reservation fees', pushes a weekend round trip for a family of four with the car between the Mainland and Vancouver Island ever closer to the magic $200 mark.

And even more fantastical, this has all been done without an 'official' fare increase.

Sheesh.

Oh, and how much are those German Ferries that are being built with our money, but not our (unionized) workers, going to cost us anyway Mr. Hahn?

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*Searched high and low on the BC Ferries website for that original press release, but I sure as heck couldn't find it. In fact, if you type 'Bowland' into the site's search engine you come up with exactly zero entries.

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