| B.C. should stay out of ship building.
As a manufacturer and tax- payer I was disgusted at the costs over-run when the “Fast Cats” were built. We know very well that those over-run costs were just the tip of the ice berg that did not include labour training, typical government bureaucratic waste and cost of money to say the least. The design was flawed from the outset but the engineering companies ignored the faults because of political interference. The B.C. unions shot themselves in the foot with all of their demands. They screwed their one chance to get into ship building. In the end the B.C. government has no business in ship building period in any case. Building outside of B.C. leaves the design, quality control and warranty in the hands of professionals who have the where-with-all and financial backing. At least B.C. tax-payers won’t have to pay for twice for each boat and then see them sold for less than the price of the engines.
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