BC Ferries should not be allowed to go through with its plans to build new ships in China, after China hit Canada with a fresh round of tariffs, says Canada’s Opposition leader.

Pierre Poilievre made the comments to CHEK News while visiting a construction company in Langford on Tuesday, saying public funds must not be spent with a state-owned shipyard at a time when China is actively trying to harm the country’s economy.

Poilievre also called on the federal Liberal government to cancel a $1 billion loan to BC Ferries from the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

“It seems incredible to me that the Liberals and NDP want to give a billion-dollar contract, backed by a taxpayer-funded federal loan, to a country that has slammed our farmers and fish harvesters with unfair tariffs,” he said in an inte

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