bc ferries wants us to eat their shitty food

due to revamped transport canada policy in light of terrorist attacks on nyc, london, and madrid, bc ferries is considering changes which will force more people to consume ferry food. 

bc ferries apparently intends on following all the new guidelines, but theyre going to start by simply prohibiting ferry passengers from leaving the terminal.  they could start with, i dont know, checking id and doing vehicle searches if alarm bells toll, but im guessing that bc ferries intelligence has informed them that the fish-n-chips restaurant and other cutesy businesses around ferry terminals have the best bomb-making supplies in the lower mainland.

i dont think im being particularly conspiracy-minded when i declare this is just a cheap attempt to get folks riding the ferry to spend more of their money on overpriced ferry food, and less of it on actual food.

apparently, these actions are justified because ahmed ressam carried a bunch of explosives on the  victoria-port angeles, wa ferry (bc ferries do not appear to sail to the usa) during his nye 2000 bomb trip to l.a.

Comments

[RossK]

And what are they going to do with somebody they don't like who, say, lives in Nanaimo and is coming to Vancouver for oh, I dunno, a dialysis treatment - put them on a no float* list while there kidney's fail.

This is stupider than stupid. And you can bet that if 600,000 people wrote letters to the ferry commission they would still ignore it.

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*Perhaps it's time to get Mr. Floatie on the case.

[Rick Barnes]

The CEO is American, maybe he worked for Wal-Mart. He has no problem shifting Canadian jobs to China or Europe.

[Candace]

The argument that this is warranted because of ahmed ressam is a bit weak, given that he was arrested 5 years ago...

ferry food...ICK. And now I'm craving clam chowder from the fish & chip place at Horseshoe Bay. Damn