For a measly $60 million or so, the Canadian taxpayer can build at least four more cruise ship terminals along the inside passages.
Okay, perhaps another $20 million more in “chump change” would get us cruising ports of call in Ladysmith, Powell River, Port McNeill and Port Hardy. Then, when you combine those potential docks with the ones already in place in Nanaimo, Prince Rupert and Campbell River, we would have a whole herd of white elephants on the coast.
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