The prospect of the provincial government running a shipyard doesn’t make any sense to Kevin Lacey, the Atlantic Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
He’s skeptical of the 38 million dollar government bailout of the Bas Caraquet shipyard on the Acadian Peninsula announced by the provincial government last weekend. Lacey questions whether the government has the expertise to run a shipyard.
Lacey suspects the bailout has more to do with political considerations and maintaining Liberal party po;pularity in that part of the province than it has with good economics.
The opposition Conservatives will get a chance tomorrow to question Victor Boudreau, the minister responsible for the Regional Development Corporation,
