I hear you. :) It's most likely due to it being a lowest cost procurement award. Canadian ship builders are more expensive so, why spend $'s & submit a bid if China is bidding? in 2025, we could be prioritizing Canadian jobs and Canadian materials i.e steel, ... even if it costs more. Oh well.

That is no excuse! On November 30th 1945, Captain Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was executed by firing squad after being convicted of ordering his crew to machine-gun survivors in the water & destroy their life rafts in an attempt to eliminate evidence of the attack. We hung people for "just following orders"!

Then, why did BC Ferries announce it would purchase new boats built in China on ...wait for it,....June 10, 2025!, i.e. when it selected China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards to build four new ferries. That's a lot of Chinese steel insteads of Canadian! C'mon BC, time to get with the program?

80 years ago, Nov 30, 1945, Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, German U-boat commander, was executed by firing squad after being convicted of war crimes for ordering his crew to shoot the survivors of a Greek merchantman sunk by U-852

The only major U.S.-controlled player is Imperial, which explains the 20–30% that leaves. Pretending the industry is ‘mostly American-owned’ just isn’t true?

That talking point doesn’t survive the data. About 65–75% of oil-sands profits stay in Canada, going to Canadian shareholders, pensions, taxes, and reinvestment.

For example, it isn’t a one-off project, it isn’t climate-destroying, and it isn’t designed to enrich Americans. It’s a multi-year build with thousands of construction jobs that I? did not include, along with a Canadian supply chain, and billions in domestic GDP. But do carry on

If you think measuring national strategy by dividing permanent roles into the total population is serious analysis, darling, you might want to retire your own burner. And notice you still haven’t addressed a single correction:

If you want to argue the policy, fine, but pretending Canadians aren’t smart enough to understand the difference between slogans and infrastructure is precisely the kind of condescension you claim to oppose?

And no, it’s not designed to "advantage American investors’", it’s designed to keep Canadian energy competitive, reduce emissions, and secure a pipeline Alberta has been demanding for a decade.

Your talking point collapses under its own weight. The project in question isn’t a "one-off" anything, it’s a multi-year industrial build that anchors thousands of skilled trades jobs, long-term operations roles, & an Alberta supply chain. Between 500 and 1000 long term well paying careers.