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"The one person who has demonstrated some spine throughout this contretemps has been BC Ferries president Nicolas Jimenez. In private moments, he has surely quivered with rage at the duplicity and fake outrage and false equivalence he’s witnessed as the debate around the contract has raged on.
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Last week, Mr. Jimenez made an appearance at the Made in Canada: Ferries and Rail Summit in Hamilton, Ont.
He reiterated that the ferry corporation received no bids from a Canadian shipyard for the four-vessel contract, and pointed out that, beyond the industry’s current obligations to the national shipbuilding strategy – which consists primarily of building coast guard and navy vessels – there simply isn’t the capacity to do much more.
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