Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Bill Curry
Publication Date: June 26, 2025 - 06:00
Federal infrastructure bank provided $1-billion in financing for BC Ferries purchase of four new Chinese-made ships
June 26, 2025
The federal government’s Canada Infrastructure Bank provided $1-billion in financing for BC Ferries’ plan to buy four new ships from a Chinese state-owned shipyard, a fact that Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland did not mention last week when she sharply criticized the purchase.Ms. Freeland sent a strongly worded letter last week to B.C. Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth expressing her “great consternation and disappointment” with the planned purchase.
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