Editor:
Your Oct. 30 lead article on the FAC meeting (“BC Ferries won’t talk fare equity, restored sailings”) demonstrates very clearly that BC Ferries’ senior
(mis)management live in a fantasy world wholly divorced from reality.
Mark Collins is vice-president for strategic planning and community engagement. BC Ferries operates a monopoly, which requires no strategic planning whatsoever, and if refusing to discuss issues passes for “community engagement” then Mr. Collins is a grossly overpaid (like much of BC Ferries senior management) incompetent placeholder.
He admits that BC Ferries does not know the basis on which fares were set before the corporation was restructured. It would be hard to come up with a more damning admission of ignorance and incompetence than this.
BC Ferries appears to be, by its words and actions, dysfunctional and broken and perhaps it is time to clean house at the top. Whatever is done, it can hardly get any worse.
Richard Buzz Bennett, Gibsons
