When we last left the decision by BC Ferries to award a contract to build four new vessels in its fleet to a Chinese shipbuilder, politicians of all persuasions couldn’t denounce the move vigorously enough.
It was a scandal, we were assured. The federal Conservatives decried the fact we were off-shoring jobs to an adversary. (Who is going to tell them that China is our second-largest trading partner and our exports help feed their people?)
