The Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans has come under fire for its plan to close the Kitsilano Coast Guard base, and now it has launched a website to counter critics.
Keith Ashfield, the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, was in Vancouver to defend the federal government’s decision to shut down the Kitsilano Coast Guard base.
And on the back of telling reporters that the closure won’t put lives in danger, Ashfield’s ministry has launched a website which claims to “dispell misinformation” about the closure in a section called myths and facts.
Entitled “www.searchandrescuebc.ca,” the website states response times will actually drop to seven minutes as opposed to the average 22 minute response time of the existing station.
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