tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post1254519644999321392..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: Which Run Is Really Losing Big Money At BC Ferries?RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-63158886789929343032013-12-05T19:17:23.086-08:002013-12-05T19:17:23.086-08:00it isn't about saving money. if they wanted t...it isn't about saving money. if they wanted to do that, they would simply do what is necessary to make B.C. Ferries a Crown corp. again and get a lower interest rate. If they ain't doing that you know it isn't the money. they could cut the salaries of the executives and board of directors, but they ain't doing that, so we know its not about money.<br /><br />whats it all about. well getting some of the smaller run privatized and then letting that friend, buy the whole thing. I'm sure they have someone waiting to buy the whole thing. <br /><br />Now it maybe they want to depopulate the islands so developers can move in. it is lovely and tourist destinations make so much more sense to the lieberals than just ole' B.C. citizens, taxpayers living there and enjoying themselves.<br /><br />Not really sure what the lieberals are up to, but they are up to something and it has nothing to do with saving money.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-2776123799701501362013-12-05T17:48:33.205-08:002013-12-05T17:48:33.205-08:00Why?
Well, because, although ordinary socio-econo...Why?<br /><br />Well, because, although ordinary socio-economic prudence does not recommend it, Gordon Campbell's neo-right ideology demanded the privatization of publicly owned facilities and the destruction of public sector unions. Unable to get elected by that program, both unpopular and unnecessary, he lied about his intent to sell off BC Rail. Concealment was the essential ingredient of Campbell's reign; it was used to hide BC Rail's profitability so's to rationalize selling it; it was the prime intent of the bullshit "privatized" BC Ferries Services Inc.---to hide the books so the real owners can't see how executives are purposely opting for needless spending and expensive, off shore ship-builing when domestic shipyards would have saved millions and provided employment.<br /><br />The BC Liberals can't come right out and say it, of course, but they've adopted the piecemeal, rather than the whole hog method of privatization (like they did with BC Rail) and targeted the peripheral ferry runs so's not to raise alarm. We little islanders have seen BCFS Inc. refer to us as "money-losing" runs in official literature and news releases for years as well as all manner of PABsters, trolls and cranks tell us they're tired of "subsidizing" our luxurious lifestyles (!). The proposed cable ferry to Denman and Hornby ain't about saving money; it's about installing a non-union, privatized operator to run the watery tramway; but the numbers BCFS Inc has been giving us to justify the proposal---on the ground of saving money---is yet to be believed around here.<br /><br />There is the added Schadenfreude for BC Liberals, knowing their intentional dis-management and eventual privatization of BC Ferries also hurts a region of BC that does not vote for them. <br /><br />Cable ferry construction was to have started two months ago yet there are rumours of accumulating engineering problems---many of which had been anticipated by islanders---that may explain the hold up. Otherwise, their is no prudent economic model that justifies this costly and unnecessary proposal---unless, of course, if it's one of those concealed ones.scotty on denmannoreply@blogger.com