On June 20, it was reported that the Minister of Transport had wrote a letter expressing her great consternation and disappointment with BC Ferries' decision to contract the Chinese state-owned shipyard and that she was surprised that BC Ferries did not appear to have been mandated to require an appropriate level of Canadian content in the procurement.
Does that make sense, that the Minister of Transport or that ministry should have been surprised by that on June 20, or should they already have known for months?