Seaspan is a Canadian shipbuilding firm which has recently been given a contract to build 17 ships for the Canadian Navy.The real hairball will get coughed up if the Canadian public finally wakes up to the fact that Harper's ship procurement fairy-tale is actually way off the rails, seriously under-funded and probably won't happen in anything like what is being advertised by the Harper Hillbilly Government.
Now they need skilled workers to move to Vancouver and help build the vessels – and they have got their eye on Portsmouth workers.
At least, according to Christy Clark, BC is "family friendly" and the unicorns sprinkle sugar everywhere.
Added: To enhance clarity, Portsmouth is in England, Hampshire County, UK.
Absolutely amazing that people continue to think of any of this crowd of louts as responsible, or even conservative. Thank you for posting this.
ReplyDeleteHarper Hillbilly Gov't.
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Does that explain why it appears that Canadian political discourse has degenerated into one long, bad trip/oxy bender?
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The public is being forced fed a Red Herring here by the Harper Conservative Government. Announcing massive jobs programs buys votes. Harper is using our tax Dollars to fund private corporations bottom lines by first guaranteeing $300 million each to the Washington Group (west), and Irving (east) to upgrade their facilities so they can fulfill their contracts in the Canadian shipbuilding program..... for next thirty years.
ReplyDeleteBringing tradespeople from overseas to our Provinces doesn't create jobs for those who are here already, and in a training mode (without experience), that will take four years to gain their own trade certificates.
Ratio of Tradesmen to Apprentices should be 5:1, not 1:5.
Yes, Ross, that would explain at least a part of it. :)
ReplyDeleteGive me one long, bad trip/oxy bender over another 2 years of a stevie government anytime RossK and Cap'n Dave. We all know how to deal with a bad trip, and stevie's been one of the worst . . . .
ReplyDeleteWow. I was just talking to someone here the other day about who was applying to something in Vancouver to do with the project. He said adverts had gone all over the world about this. And Vancouver being what it is, they're going to be flooded with applications.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25054229
Let it be said that the "BC Jobs Plan" not unlike just about everything that comes out of Christy Clarke's mouth, is an expensive scam and a complete and utter failure.
ReplyDeleteWe do not need a military,
ReplyDeleteprint AK 47 and spend the change on Nation Building in Canada.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2013/12/death-of-gunsmith-mikhail-kalashnikov.html
Aren't Brit shipyards still on the Clyde? I sure hope they don't hire the guys who built our fleet of super subs.
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