Editor:
I am not sure whether I was the only one blind-sided by the B.C. Ferries Commissioner's Report (Coast Reporter, Jan. 27).
I don't think David Hahn had yet a chance to cash the first of his $300,000 a year pension cheques, and the Commissioner tells us that nothing is very well with the B.C. Ferries Corporation. The single share holder of the B.C. Ferries Corporation, the B.C. government, has been telling us that David Hahn was well worth the exorbitant remuneration of close to a million dollars a year, since he "put the corporation on a sound business footing." This is the same government that accuses the NDP of ruining the economy and not being able to run a hot dog stand.
Let's just bracket out the $500 million overrun of the Convention Centre in Vancouver, which happens to be the same figure as the NDP's Fast Ferry disaster.
So I would like to know from the single shareholder of the B.C. Ferries Corporation, being such savvy business people, how they could have allowed the former CEO to mess up so badly for such a long time, while drawing compensation about twice as high as other comparable positions - and ultimately, not with their money, but with the taxpayers'?
Klaus Blume
Gibsons
