On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 03:01:13 +0000, Don White wrote:


"John Smith" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Those four subs Britain sucked us into buying keep getting worse.

http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/se...coutimi2004100
6

Maybe we should have picked up a couple from the Russians.



Maybe Canada should have been more on top of things, such as technical, QA
and QC specifications as well as acceptance testing.

We got suckered by a low ball offer...but now the costs of updating to
Canadian standards are adding up.

Hey, c'mon over the West Coast - we have some great aluminum ferries to
sell you, cheap! (actually, we sold them for about $1 to the original
builder, who flipped them to another country for millions. I'm not making
this up...)

Maybe we could have refitted them with some "ballast" (I suggest the
people who suggested the idea in the first place) and convert them to subs...

Lloyd