Tourism, business losing millions over cuts to BC Ferries: study

Misc CDN | 206594 hits | Nov 17 1:24 pm | Posted by: Hyack

One of the owners of an eco-friendly lodge in British Columbia's remote Bella Coola Valley says recent ferry service cuts are threatening local businesses and costing governments almost $1 million in lost tax revenues.

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by andyt
Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:09 am
Right wing dogma at work - cut govt spending on ferries - and whoops, you lose more in revenue from tourism than you save on the ferries. That's not counting the harm to the various businesses that were dependent on those ferries bringing the tourists. Oh, well, EI is a federal responsibility anyway.

Ferries need to be designated as part of the highway system, not some pretend private company that still keeps sucking up tax dollars. But that would not be right tightie correctness.
by Freakinoldguy
Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:27 am
And this is news............how. The BC Municipalities commissioned a study that said the same thing but Todd Stone in his infinite wisdom and years of experience in operating large Ferry Corporations decided that the result of that study were wrong.

But in a letter to the UBCM's president, B.C. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone said he rejects the conclusions of the report.
Our sense of this report is it's highly simplistic in terms of the analysis that's been done," he told CBC News on Friday. The assumptions that have been made that kind of underpin the findings of this report are so massively overstated that you could drive a ferry through them.

"It's far too simplistic to suggest that just because someone may not have taken a ferry, they didn't spend money in B.C. in some other facet."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.2772692

With leadership like this who needs tourism money and the inconvenience of servicing a million voters who live on Islands when all we have to is let the ferries rot and we'll all get rich.

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