No BC company bid on it because the request for bids was worded in such a way that it made no sense for Canadian companies to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars responding when it was obvious that they wanted to go to China. Its an old trick governments use when creating bids

You’re defending a party that says buy Canadian, support BC and then gives a huge contract to China. You’re just like them obviously. “Do as I say, not as I do”. STFU

“No BC company bid” skips the key fact: the tender prioritized lowest cost and had no meaningful BC-content requirement, leaving local yards competing against far cheaper overseas labour.

That’s true - but you have to consider whether the contract was fair and reasonable to local companies. No one’s going to spend literally millions to bid a project if local companies are faced with numerous restrictions around the enviro and labor that foreign companies wouldn’t?

“Due to the inherent price disadvantage caused by massive state subsidies for Chinese shipyards, coupled with low wages, weak environmental standards, and minimal labour protections, no Canadian or Western shipyard could reasonably compete, leaving us with no choice but to withdraw.”

With a record like this why would anybody vote NDP?

Ya, because the taxes the government put on everything made in uneconomical They knew they’d not be able to win.

Due to the lack of advanced notice, no CDN company bid. Ferry planning & procurement should be 5 to 10 years out. Just like airlines plan for aircraft orders. The Eby gov’t in flat panic ordered ferries for quick delivery. Lack of planning You fail to plan — you plan to fail

Why didn't they bid??? Industry representatives and local shipyards argued that BC Ferries' procurement criteria were heavily weighted toward the lowest price, making it impossible for domestic yards to compete with state-subsidized foreign labor rates. Go Team Canada!!

The lie spews from @TNorrisBC. According to local shipyards, the contract was designed in a way that effectively shut them out. This was a loan from the federal Liberals, given to the BC NDP who then used the money to appease their allies in the Chinese Government.

I used to bid on public tenders all the time. They are very expensive and time consuming to put together. First thing I’d do was review the evaluation criteria and playing field - tenders with the deck already stacked against us would be declined. The fix was already in.

Seaspan preemptively served notice that they would not bid, as they could not compete fairly against state-funded Asian companies. seaspan.com/press-release/bc…

They don’t make it easy on companies to bid This is the build back better strategy policyalternatives.ca/wp-con…

DEI clauses in order to bid gov.bc.ca/gov/content/bc-pro…

Anyone who has followed the story in the news at all knows that no BC companies bid on the ferries because they couldn't compete with China's price. BC companies couldn't compete because it is much cheaper to build the ships without environmental and labour regulations. In BC we have a higher standard for how we treat the environment and workers. If the NDP had asked for bids from BC companies there would have been bids submitted. If the NDP really cared about the environment and BC workers they would have built the ferries in BC

Far right of the @bcndp are the @TheDemocrats. Free drugs and “orange man bad” isn’t a great election mandate.

You guys sound unhinged with all your conspiracy theories.

biv.com/news/commentary/rob-… Could there be a reason for that?