{"id":286001,"date":"2025-11-16T03:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286001\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:32:23","slug":"ndp-convention-delegates-call-on-their-own-government-to-build-ferries-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/286001\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP convention delegates call on their own government to build ferries in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-byline__image\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"68\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763263939_585_author-placeholder.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy \tThe Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted November 15, 2025 3:00 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Delegates attending the convention of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/british-columbia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British Columbia\u2019s<\/a> New Democrats have called on their own government to build ferries in Canada and \u201cprioritize\u201d shipyards in B.C.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762614923_240_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The appeal comes in form of a resolution backed by the BC Federation of Labour and BC Building Trade among others, and follows BC Ferries\u2019 decision to contract a shipyard owned by China\u2019s communist government to build four new major vessels, with BC Ferries citing costs and a lack of local capacity for the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Brynn Bourke, executive director of BC Building Trade, says the provincial shipping industry has reached what she calls aninflection point\u201d in pointing to the political support that the shipping industries in Germany and Poland receive from their respective governments.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Bourke says B.C. \u201cmust act now\u201d if the province ever wants to see ferry construction return to the province.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Ashton, president of the International Longshore Workers Union Canada, and candidate for the leadership of the federal NDP, agrees with Bourke\u2019s call to build ferries in B.C. to ensure good paying local jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11526768\/wayne-gretzky-addresses-backlash-trump-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763263942_527_CP174392620.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWayne Gretzky asserts \u2018I\u2019m Canadian\u2019 as he addresses Trump-related backlash\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11522992\/canada-post-strike-holiday-season-2025\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763263943_353_189a15b4-6e37-4650-8ea4-aef6f0040f76.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCould Canada Post workers strike again ahead of holidays? What we know\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ashton says if Germany can build its own ferries, \u201cwhy the hell can\u2019t\u201d Canada do the same, drawing loud applause from the almost 800 delegates, with most of them in favour of the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>It also calls on the provincial government to work with Ottawa to further invest in local shipbuilding, pass legislation for local content and jobs in ferry procurement and ask Ottawa to reinstitute a 25 per cent import duty on vessels built 100 per cent abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates have been meeting since Friday in Victoria for the party\u2019s biannual convention, where Premier David Eby will face a leadership review after winning about 93 per cent in 2023, but nearly losing last year\u2019s provincial election.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 15, 2025 3:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[903,48,43,19954,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-286001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-headlines","tag-ndp","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}