Mark Collins says ferry service now on an even keel and needs no more COVID handouts
According to Mark Collins, in December 2020, B.C. Ferries was given $308 million as a joint offering from the federal and provincial governments to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
TransLink and Transit B.C. received similar amounts from the same joint federal/provincial agreement. “The operating relief component of the Safe Restart Funding B.C. Ferries received has now been exhausted,” Collins said.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.B.C. Ferries had a better year in 2021/22 than the previous year but had not recovered to pre-pandemic numbers.
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