In July, the provincial government announced that after spending a fortune on research they will not be spending a penny more on the Vancouver Island rail corridor.
Its sad little one-carriage train will continue to potter up island when everyone wants to come down, and vice versa. The current service is a farce aimed at getting the rail service cancelled.
The Government made the announcement in the holiday season, for obvious reasons: no one knows about it and few will.
Some eight weeks later, the rail corridor boss, a well-known Cowichan Liberal, Mr Graham Bruce, made no mention of his government's failure to offer one solitary penny when he appeared on C-FAX radio. (http://www.cfax1070.com/newsstory.php?newsId=15802)
Nor did Mr Bruce mention his financial failure as head of the rail organisation, which owns the corridor land and aims to raise money for trains on it.
Instead, he announced that the $100 million that the Government rejected investing will in reality only be $15 million in partnership with the federal government. And for some reason, he hopes to get that from the goons who banned spending one more dollar on it,
Mr Bruce intends to relocate the rail HQ to Nanaimo and start a service south in the morning. This is an admirable plan, but first Mr Bruce would do well to follow the example of his Great Leader and summarily resign.
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