Canada’s most entertaining reality TV competition since Battle of the Blades and Who Wants to Sleep with Rex Murphy? has come to a climactic end.
On Wednesday, after much fanfare and suspense, the federal government awarded $33-billion in government shipbuilding contracts to two shipyards, one in Halifax and one in North Vancouver.
It’s good news for North Vancouver’s Seaspan Marine Corp., where an estimated $8-billion contract is expected to create up to 4,000 jobs in B.C. and with any luck a higher concentration on our streets of grizzled scallywags, sea dogs and men who talk in the pirate vernacular.
Not one to let a coattail go un-ridden or pass up a photo-op, Premier Christy Clark beamed in front of the cameras following the announcement. “Eight billion dollars is huge,” said Clark. “At a time like this, when the world is experiencing all this economic uncertainty, it is going to be big.”
She then added, “And even though this is a federal initiative that I had absolutely nothing to do with, it’s important that it appears to voters that I was somehow involved by posing in front of cameras at announcements like this—and it’s also why you will never see me within a 100 miles of a train track, train or train conductor once employed by the now defunct B.C. Rail… Families first! F-A-M-I-LY! Gooooo families!”
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