Several years ago the government took steps to try and divorce themselves from direct hands-on control; however they now find themselves back in the thick of things courtesy of BC Ferries President and Chief Executive Officer, David Hahn.
In a story this week in the Victoria Times Colonist, columnist Les Layne stated:
After divorcing B.C. Ferries from government to avoid the horror of "political interference," Liberals must be a bit choked to find the interference is still going on. Only now it's running in the opposite direction.
The strange hybrid "publicly owned private corporation" was set up in 2003 to keep politicians away from the ferry system. One of the reviews that led to the big makeover found B.C. Ferries "entangled in a web of formal and informal accountability to ministries and politicians." "Political interference ... pervades every important decision," the report found.
