Vaughn Palmer: B.C. Ferries running out of excuses

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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. Ferries running out of excuses
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Blame the customers, trash your own website and refer everyone to Twitter. B.C. Ferries\u0027 excuse\u002Dmaking department rises to the occasion.

Twitter being the social media platform recently rebranded as “X” by Elon Musk, its mercurial owner. When your fallback on matters of trust is Elon Musk, you know you have a credibility problem.

For starters, where was Joy MacPhail, the former NDP cabinet minister the New Democrats appointed to the ferry board more than a year ago? Jimenez started in March. In May, he emerged to announce some minor-league reforms: an attempted crackdown on car alarms, access to the upper decks for pets, and cancellation of the money-losing buffet.Article content

Then there is provincial transportation minister Rob Fleming, a longtime MLA for Victoria and the member of cabinet in charge of B.C. Ferries. Beyond that, Fleming repeated his now-familiar mantra that the service troubles are “unacceptable” and steps are being taking to “ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

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