From 1993 to 1997 I represented North Island—Powell River, a very difficult riding. I'm very familiar with the ferry. The ferry goes the wrong way. It goes from Powell River to Comox, rather than from Comox to Powell River. Any visit to Powell River usually means an overnighter. It is weather dependent; that ferry gets weathered out. It does four round trips a day. The ferry that connects the Sunshine Coast does eight round trips a day and does not get weathered out.
Every presentation said the feasibility of connecting the Sunshine Coast.... The way they think, their culture, all their government apparatus, all their tourism strategies, everything is north-south Sunshine Coast, not east-west Powell River to Vancouver Island.
This is a historical artifact we thought we got rid of in 1997 and it's back, but it's back only because they were trying to address a Lower Mainland problem and Vancouver Island took second fiddle, unfortunately.