29 Replies to “New Governor, Same As The Old Governor”

  1. There were a couple of aluminum ferries which I though were made in Canada and never worked right and were ultimately sold for scrap. Might not have been scrapped but ended up in the middle east. I couldn’t be bothered to dig deeper.
    Buying chinese might not be such a bad idea if they float & work 😉

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal

    1. “There were a couple of aluminum ferries which I though were made in Canada and never worked right and were ultimately sold for scrap.”

      Yes, that’s what happens when you let the NDP plan and execute something like ‘fast ferries’. You appoint a forestry workers union chief in charge of the project and let the Premier arbitrarily change structural details of the hulls, then sue the designers (accredited naval architects) when they publicly point out that it won’t work properly now.

      (then you lose the lawsuit, at taxpayer’s expense, of course…)

  3. $690 million for the ferries and $310 million for electrification infrastructure.

    Are these electric ferries?

    1. Most definitely battery charged electric ferries. That’s the current push. And, as a result, Canadian shipyards didn’t even bid for the contract because, they say, the Chinese government’s heavy subsidies and cheap labor costs made it impossible to compete.

      It’s not just ferries. In April of this year the IMO fired out an edict that all ocean going shipping will have to switch to Net-Zero status or face international levies imposed by the UN. The US told them to “stick it up their collective posteriors.”

      1. Orson thanks

        If they’re electric, that certainly explains why Max Carnage’s government supports it.

        And re IMO edict re net zero; does this mean a return to clipper ships?

  5. No question that it’s business as usual in Ottawa. Which consists of the usual treason, corruption, and screwing the native population while selling it as a benefit as best they can to the dumbed-down populace, aka Liberals. (The NDP were already imbeciles, and/or immune to anything but their own perceived self-benefit.)

    That said, the canola issue is more nuanced. Ottawa is wrong in its position re: Chinese tariffs, though Canada produces far more canola than is required for marine use. It should massively scale back its production, and that translates to many farmers permanently transitioning their crops to wheat, barley, or anything else.

    Canola is one of the largest offenders to contributing to health problems by entering the human food chain. It is unsafe for human consumption and should never be used for cooking oil, as an ingredient in butter substitutes like margarine, or anywhere else. And if it was removed, then the current canola supply is far too great.

  6. As a side note, the Canola Council of Canada is a government funded propaganda agency pushing disinfo about the supposed benefits of canola outside of marine applications. It contributes to the anti-scientific lie of AGW, competes (with taxpayer assistance) against the infinitely better fuels from petroleum, and a host of other negative uses spun as beneficial.

    There is also a program called AgriStability that appears to be a subsidy. For everything Canada claims to oppose when done by other nations, it does itself in spades.

  7. Makes you wonder why #Trump f-ed with our election like that, eh? If not for him shooting his mouth off to #Junior about the 51st State, the #Chicoms wouldn’t have such a good friend in Ottawa. Maybe he’s not a smart as he pretends.

    Or maybe I’m missing something?

    Elbows up!

    By the way, isn’t it funny how fast #ShinyPony dropped off the landscape? Like a little pony from the pony-ride place, sent to the glue factory because he weren’t so shiny no more. Replaced by a Euro-weasel because they stopped pretending to give pony rides.

    1. You can find mention of this ferry purchase going back as far as 2021. However, the Infrastructure Bank announced a smaller loan towards the purchase back in 2024 . I think it was $75 Million. Maybe a commitment down payment.

      Going with China was purely a financial decision.

      I am a little surprised that no one is talking about how long it takes to charge up an electric ferry (which also requires special charging centers installed). I assure you it’s measured in days, not hours. I guess that’s why they bought four of them instead of two. I wonder what they are going to do with the current diesel ferries that are presently in place.

      1. “I am a little surprised that no one is talking about how long it takes to charge up an electric ferry…”

        Greenies don’t like it when you cloud the issue with facts, and newsies are too stupid to ask. If you say “its electrical” their eyes glaze over and they stop paying attention. Because they are -stupid-. If you smacked them in the face with a wet fish and screamed “FOUR DAYS TO CHARGE THE BATTERY!!!!” they would reply “duh, wut?”

        “I wonder what they are going to do with the current diesel ferries that are presently in place.”

        Those are going to keep running the route, because the electric ones will never, ever, work.

        I’m surprised nobody is talking about running a -boat- on mammoth lithium batteries in the -ocean-. Can you imagine a dead short on a thing like that? Vaporized steel, instant carbonization of all biological material on board, and the mother of all steam explosions. There wouldn’t be enough left of it to sink.

        Actually that’s a lie. I’m not surprised. Elbows up!

    2. “If not for him shooting his mouth off to #Junior about the 51st State, the #Chicoms wouldn’t have such a good friend in Ottawa. Maybe he’s not a smart as he pretends.”

      That statement was probably quite deliberate, and designed to throw us off-balance in advance of the trade negotiations (a tactic well explained in his books). Worked like a charm. Trump doesn’t care who actually runs Canada as long as he gets what he wants.

  8. Carney and his obtuse boy-King employer, are malevolent Chi-Com operative retards who at their core despise the sidelined Canadian commoner and all their feudal plights.

  9. The connections between the Liberal Party and the China Communist Party have been in place for many decades going back to Pierre Trudeau. He, like people like Alan Rock, Maurice Strong and a bunch of others, are full blown Maoists. So is Justin the Dweeb.

  10. Man oh Man! You just wait till Canada’s farm organizations hear about this! They’ll be be plugging up highways with mountains of canola from coast to coast!

    Whadaya mean, “No way” ?

  11. In addition to the Chinese government putting 100% tariffs on canola, they are alleged to be a big part of the drug trade in Canada. The Canadian government giving 1 billion of taxpayer’s money to a country that hurts our agricultural sector, interferes in our elections, kidnaps Canadians and poisons our people with illegal drugs is wrong and offensive in so many ways. Yet BC objects to pipelines carrying “dirty” Alberta oil. Those new boats should be named Eby’s fentanyl ferries.

  12. I believe our ex-Prime Minstrel was and still is an electric ferry.
    First coined by Pierre when the idiot-bastard stuck a fork in an outlet.

    If you don’t hate Liberals, you’re either a commie or in a coma.

  13. I was kind of curious if there were any Electric Ferry manufacturers in the US. The answer is “not really.” There are EU companies setting up shop in the US to circumvent the Jones Act. Wärtsilä set up a satellite manufacturing location in San Francisco (which makes me question their judgement). They are a Finland company. There is another company, Candela, doing the same thing. They are Swedish.

    Both those companies wouldn’t have the subsidies the CCP puts out into their (well, State owned industries)…and the two EU companies would be required to pay actual wages without putting up suicide nets to catch employees doing voluntary headers out the factory windows. So, likely not able to compete with Chinese costs (or lack there of).

  16. Everything I’ve read indicates that the 100% tariff China put on Canola products from Canada is directly related to the issue of opening up the Canadian market to sell Chinese EV’s. The thing is, the primary market for Canadian Canola products isn’t China. It’s the USA (to the toon of about $8.6 Billion annually) and Mexico (just over $1 Billion annually).

    So, it seems to me the wise thing to do would be to inform the US that Canada would gladly keep Chinese EV’s out of North America, if the US drops any tariffs on Canadian Canola products. It’s not a strong bargaining position, but it’s better than status quo wait and see strategy that’s been applied so far. Perhaps this is a major issue to be addressed as they revisit the USMCA.

  17. Amazing how soon we forget. Remember this little boondoggle from a few years back.

    https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/johnson-street-bridge-steel-still-subpar-report-4635432

    Then speaking of the electrical conversion, we don’t have the shore power to supply the energy to charge the batteries but then again that may not matter when you consider the fate of the latest cargo vessel that was transpoprting 800 EVs to America. It now resides on the bottom of the Pacific. But hey ‘Elbows Up, eh!” We’re Canadian eh! and too bl**dy stupid to learn from history so we’ll make the same mistakes over and over.

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