Professor John Robertson OBA From Richmond News today: Right now, B.C. Ferries, which according to the union carries more than 21 million passengers and $8 billion in cargo each year, receives abou…

OP: @Clutha@mastodon.scot

Transport Scotland is proposing a total subsidy of £3.7 billion over a 10-year period for CalMac Ferries Limited to deliver lifeline ferry services under the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services (CHFS) contract.

This is 10 times the level of support in a country with only half the GDP of British Columbia.

This is why Scotland’s islanders, contrary to the media lies, get the most frequent, cheapest, safest, most reliable ferry service in the world, in the stormiest seas of any ferry service and to give life to the tiniest of communities who’d get no service at all in harder-nosed parts of the world.