Transport committee set to consider Conservative call to look into federal loan to B.C. Ferries – iPolitics
July 7th, 2025
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A little less than two weeks after conducting a lightning-round review of the government’s omnibus bid to create “One Canadian Economy,” members of the TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITIES committee are set to reassemble this afternoon to consider a Conservative-initiated call to take a closer look at the controversial plan by B.C. Ferries to buy four new vessels from a China-owned shipyard — and, more specifically, $1 billion in “low interest loans” that the provincial agency has received from the Canada Infrastructure Bank, as revealed by the Globe and Mail last week. (12 p.m.)
In response to that report, Conservative MP Dan Albas, who also serves as committee co-chair, filed a written request for the mid-summer session “to hear from Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland,” as well as Canada Infrastructure Bank CEO Ehren Cory, “as part of a ‘full review’ of the federal loan,” the Globe noted in a follow-up story.
