BC At Work, Episode 11, Video

[00:00:02.23] – Scott

Hi, I’m Scott Swanson. Didn’t you used to be Judy Pal?

 

[00:00:07.09] – Judy

And this is BC at Work.

 

[00:00:10.13] – Narrator

This week, a behind-the-scenes look at BC-based CanDive, and Canada’s Coast Guard on the alert. BC at Work, the inside story showcasing unions, working people, and the companies that employ them. This week from Granville Island, here’s Scott and Judy.

 

[00:00:40.26] – Scott

Good evening and welcome to the show. As you can see, we are not in the studio tonight.

 

[00:00:45.01] – Judy

I wish we were. It’s awfully cold out here today.

 

[00:00:47.11] – Scott

We’re on the docks at Granville Island.

 

[00:00:49.11] – Judy

That’s because this week all of our stories deal with the oceans.

 

[00:00:51.29] – Scott

I understand that you went to great depths for the first item.

 

[00:00:54.04] – Judy

That’s right. Our first story is about CanDive.

 

[00:00:56.22] – Scott

Your ears look a little cold.

 

[00:00:58.04] – Judy

They are. They’re freezing.

 

[00:00:59.25] – Scott

Don’t you wish you’d kept your hair long?

 

[00:01:01.02] – Judy

Well, no, not really.

 

[00:01:12.03] – Judy

Over 70 percent of the Earth is covered by water, much of that territory yet unexplored by man. There’s a company in North Vancouver which in less than 20 years has become a leader in underwater exploration and technology. They are involved in offshore oil exploration, marine construction, and other specialized oceanographic services. Phil Nuytten is president and founder of Can-Dive Services Limited.

 

[00:01:37.12] – Phil Nuytten

Most submarines crawl around the bottom. People have an idea that submarines skim around like minnows and this sort of stuff. Most of the subs don’t. They go to the bottom, clunk, and they fire off the bottom, and they go over a few feet and clunk down again, this sort of thing. The Deep Rover is one of the few subs that can actually skim over the bottom at a preset depth or can stay and hover in mid-water. And so it’s used to— a lot for behavioural studies in mid-water fish and organisms. In fact, on the last couple of expeditions, the Deep Rover, the scientists in Deep Rover have discovered a whole bunch of new species of fish they’ve never seen before and observed behaviour among fish that are— the fish are well known, but their behavioural patterns are not. As you can see, it’s an acrylic bubble rather than the steel cylinders that most submarines are made of. The hull is good for 10,000 feet. It’s five inches thick of solid acrylic. Even the technology to cast acrylic that thick was very new. In fact, a friend of mine, an artist, a sculptor, developed that technique.

 

[00:02:37.05] – Phil Nuytten

And there’s a lot of things about it that are unique. You can drop the battery pods to surface if you get stuck. If all else fails, the sphere will roll out by itself. You can leave everything else behind, just the sphere will come to the surface.

 

[00:02:48.17] – Judy

As with most businesses, diversification is important.

 

[00:02:52.06] – Phil Nuytten

One of the most interesting things that we’ve embarked on in the last couple of years is a— what can I call it— an underwater sports car. It’s a little one-person sub that dives to 100 metres and you stay down 5 or 6 hours. It’s very cheap and it sells for about the same as a pleasure boat. We have a full-scale mock-up on display at Expo ’88 in Australia, and the interest has just been overwhelming. It’s absolutely overwhelming. The equipment that we manufacture in Canada is primarily equipment for our own use— exposure suits, diving helmets, submarines, that sort of thing. Once in a while we come up with a real dandy such as the Newtsuit. Hardsuit really is a submarine that you wear, and it’s a very simple concept but very difficult in the realization. Obviously, the problems that we have in diving are primarily from the pressure. You know, you can get away from the coldness and the wetness and the inability of you to breathe water, but the thing that really gets you in the end is the pressure. That’s what causes the bends and causes all sorts of nasty things— bone necrosis, vestibular Caisson’s disease and all sorts of terrible things.

 

[00:03:58.21] – Phil Nuytten

When you eliminate the pressure, you eliminate all sorts of things, not just physiological hazards on the body, but in very cold, callous, practical terms, you eliminate very expensive breathing gas. Divers working at 1,000 feet now using conventional diving equipment use a technique called saturation diving, and they’re breathing oxygen and helium, sometimes a tri-mix of oxygen, helium, and nitrogen, and this is very expensive. Each bottle of gas has to be spectrographed, analyzed, and certified. The cost of breathing gas for a 1,000-foot dive can run well over $100,000. The cost of breathing gas for a newt suit for a 1,000-foot dive is $26. The capital cost of a saturation system can run between $2 and $5 million. The cost of a newtsuit is about $300,000. One of the big things on an oil rig is that the saturation systems take up about 3,000 square feet of permanent space, and boy, space is at a premium on an oil rig. The newtsuit takes up 100 feet of temporary space. So there’s all sorts of tremendous advantages. Easy to handle, it’s very small, you can fly it out in a helicopter. To an oil company, let’s say, where they’re paying as much as $30,000 or $40,000 or $50,000 a month for equipment rental while it sits on board, the newtsuit sits on the beach and drinks beer, and when you need it, it climbs in the helicopter and goes up and does its number.

 

[00:05:06.07] – Phil Nuytten

Well, to compress a diver takes about 24 hours, a conventional diver, a saturation diver. If you wang them right down to 1,000 feet, which you can do, I mean, you wind up with a bowl of jelly, the guy’s, you know, in very bad condition. So we take about 24 hours to compress them. The time to decompress from a 1,000-foot dive typically is nine days. So the divers would come up in a diving bell and transfer into a living chamber where they’re continuously under pressure, and there’s showers and toilet facilities and bunks and everything else, and they will live in there for 9 days as they slowly decant the pressure. The newtsuit, for instance, takes 5 minutes to go to 1,000 feet, takes 5 minutes to come back. Actually, it’s quite a, quite a thing. I’ve been involved in deep ambient pressure diving, saturation diving, all my life. And for me to see a guy climb out of the newtsuit after a 1,000-foot dive and just, you know, open the hatch, climb out, and have a cigarette and a cup of coffee, make his report, it’s still very thrilling. It really— you really get quite an impact from it.

 

[00:05:57.29] – Phil Nuytten

You think, God, instead of 9 days in all this equipment and the threat to his life and everything else, the physiological hazards, here the guy goes down 1,000 feet, works, climbs back out of the suit, goes home. Fantastic.

 

[00:06:10.22] – Judy

CanDive makes all their products at their facility in North Vancouver. They attempt to secure the bulk of their material locally. Some items, especially for the newly designed newtsuit, are custom-made in the factory. CanDive’s research team, after extensive work on prototypes, developed the innovative joint that was the key to the development of this deep-sea diving suit. Each piece is carefully measured and fitted so each joint is not only pressure tight but easily maneuvered by the diver. The diver’s size and even colour preference are taken into consideration by the company. Gee, I wonder if they have a 7.5 medium?

 

[00:06:55.13] – Phil Nuytten

There’s a great deal of satisfaction to tackle a job such as underwater burning, and at the end of, you know, an 8-hour shift, you come out and you’re tired and you’re cold and everything else, but you’ve completed the work, and you’ve completed work that very few people in the world can do. So it’s very satisfying.

 

[00:07:08.06] – Judy

Not only that, is that it’s— you’re doing something different every day, aren’t you?

 

[00:07:11.07] – Phil Nuytten

Oh yeah, very different, yeah. I mean, you never know. It can be anything from studying little beasties under a rock to blasting down a dam, and these take place a week apart.

 

[00:07:20.11] – Judy

I think the danger element is something there too, a little bit of a challenge.

 

[00:07:23.29] – Phil Nuytten

Um, yeah, it, uh, well, like the man says, ‘I remember when diving was dangerous and sex was safe,’ so I told you how old I am, you know, but it’s not near as dangerous as one would expect. Providing you’re properly trained and utilize good equipment.

 

[00:07:38.13] – Captain Logan

I work, yeah. I’m working now.

 

[00:07:45.23] – Scott

Oh, and what do you do?

 

[00:07:46.23] – Captain Logan

At 9 this morning, I sell houses, and I work until about 11 every night.

 

[00:07:51.08] – Captain Logan

Work about 80 hours a week, and I like it that way.

 

[00:07:56.13] – Judy

Scott, it’s getting really cold out here.

 

[00:07:58.16] – Scott

While we go in and get warm, perhaps you can explain to me about the new look.

 

[00:08:02.15] – Judy

We’ll be right back.

 

[00:08:07.11] – Martin Sheen

David, did you know that California grape growers dump eight million pounds of pesticides on the grape vineyards every year? And did you know that these pesticides are toxic poisons similar to Agent Orange that cause cancer, birth defects, and even death among farm workers and their families? Did you know that the best way to stop the growers from spraying these pesticides is to stop buying California table grapes?

 

[00:08:27.25] – David

I know that, Martin, and so do thousands of other people who don’t buy California table grapes.

 

[00:08:32.04] – Martin Sheen

Smart boy. Please join us. Don’t buy California table grapes.

 

[00:08:40.05] – Captain Logan

Your dad and I swam in this lake when he was a boy.

 

[00:08:43.02] – Child

Why can’t we swim in it now, Grandpa?

 

[00:08:45.19] – Captain Logan

The lake is ruined by pollution.

 

[00:08:47.26] – Child

Can we fix it?

 

[00:08:49.10] – Captain Logan

First, we need a leader who isn’t afraid to stand up to the big corporate polluters. Brian Mulroney promised that, but he let us down just like the Liberals.

 

[00:08:57.21] – Child

What are you gonna do, Grandpa?

 

[00:09:00.07] – Captain Logan

This time I’m voting for Ed Broadbent.

 

[00:09:03.02] – Child

Can I vote for Ed Broadbent too, Grandpa?

 

[00:09:07.16] – Scott

Judy, it’s amazing how they’ve taken a rundown industrial site and turned it into such a beautiful urban park.

 

[00:09:12.19] – Judy

Oh, I know. Why don’t we go take a look around?

 

[00:09:14.15] – Scott

We might be able to find a hairdresser. Here’s Clay Perry.

 

[00:09:32.05] – Clay Perry

Women were playing a direct and crucial role in the BC labour movement by the turn of the century. Shortly after that, the women who were operators in the telephone system conducted a dispute with their employer with a tactical sense and discipline that astounded their employer, and I suspect a good deal of the men who were involved in the labour movement at the time. And those same women, some few years later, were the last to return to work after going out in sympathy for the Winnipeg General Strike. And Helena Gutteridge, who was later to become Vancouver’s first woman city councillor, was an active and prominent leader of the labour movement throughout that period. And on behalf of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, chaired the first meeting of the BC Loggers Union. But perhaps most astonishing as an achievement was a group of women who organized and kept organized a union on behalf of domestic workers. There are very few fields that are more difficult in which to organize a union than that, and at that time there were very few fields in which workers needed unions more. And I suspect that that may well still be the case.

 

[00:10:55.06] – Clay Perry

And that’s Perry’s logbook.

 

[00:10:57.22] – Scott

Judy, how are they going to tell us apart?

 

[00:10:59.28] – Judy

Well, I’m, I’m better looking than you.

 

[00:11:02.07] – Scott

I see. Our next story is about the people who work on the BC Ferries.

 

[00:11:06.21] – Judy

Is that one of them back there, Scott?

 

[00:11:08.14] – Scott

No, Judy, the BC Ferries are much larger.

 

[00:11:10.20] – Judy

Ah, you know, it’s really noisy out here.

 

[00:11:13.05] – Scott

That’s BC at work.

 

[00:11:22.14] – Captain Logan

You, keep everybody back behind the line. Make sure everybody gets a life jacket. Everybody got a life jacket? You’re gonna be in the stern. You’re gonna be the bowman, okay? Get up there right now. Make sure you pass the painter up. John, you’re gonna be on the brake.

 

[00:11:37.13] – Captain Logan

Clear the covers.

 

[00:11:38.04] – Captain Logan

You get ready for the painter. Okay, get those covers cleared away. Make sure they’re okay.

 

[00:11:44.24] – Captain Logan

Ready in the bow.

 

[00:11:47.05] – Judy

Ready in the stern.

 

[00:11:48.08] – Captain Logan

Slip the grates. Lower away.

 

[00:11:55.21] – Scott

In the past 20 years, there have been few serious accidents on BC Ferries, and hopefully there will never be one.

 

[00:12:01.25] – Captain Logan

Okay, towards the stern, please. Please watch your step there.

 

[00:12:05.07] – Scott

But if there is, the crew of this ferry and every ferry in the fleet is trained to handle that emergency. From the bridge to the engine room, it takes well-trained, dedicated people to keep our ferries running in a safe and comfortable way.

 

[00:12:20.01] – Roger Charron

These drills are carried out every shift. Over a 10-day period, there’ll be one drill like this that we’ve seen today, and after a five-year period, they will have to be re-certified to prove that they are capable of doing all sorts of life-saving aboard the vessel.

 

[00:12:38.07] – Scott

When you see Jimmy serving lunch, or Veronica as a cashier, or Paul telling you where to park your car, it probably never crossed your mind they do far more than the jobs you see them do.

 

[00:12:52.13] – Captain Logan

Okay, make sure you—

 

[00:12:53.05] – Scott

Every two weeks, Jimmy, Veronica, Paul, and every other crew member on this ferry and every ferry in the fleet go through emergency drills just in case an emergency arises. They can go from this to this in a matter of seconds.

 

[00:13:11.26] – Captain Logan

Go towards the stern of the boat, that’s the way. Just watch your step there, please.

 

[00:13:15.29] – Scott

Throughout this ferry, the story is the same. Well-trained, experienced people working as a team to make sure that you arrive at your destination safely, in comfort, and on time.

 

[00:13:29.12] – Captain Logan

[unclear] should meet somewhere down by Mary Ann, just on the other side there.

 

[00:13:34.20] – Captain Logan

Midships. Midships.

 

[00:13:35.19] – Scott

On the bridge, Captain Logan and Andy Ma ensure accurate navigation and handling. Moving over 9,000 tons of ship easily through some pretty tight spaces takes experience and hard work.

 

[00:13:52.24] – Captain Logan

We’re our own little community here and we have to, where when you’re out in the middle of the water, even though it’s only in the Gulf of Georgia, we have to be the police force, the fire department, and also even the hospital until we get to the dock, at least.

 

[00:14:12.09] – Scott

The engine room is the heart of the ship. The propulsion system is as complex as it is large, but John Katalinic knows it like the back of his hand.

 

[00:14:21.25] – John Katalinic

I like to see the pictures in the movies of the wartime, these big battleships. They’re tied up and the captain all of a sudden turns around and he opens up this great big valve and the ship steams off at 40 knots. That’s baloney. That’s really baloney. This is where all the action is. We’re the unsung heroes.

 

[00:14:43.20] – Scott

Loading this ferry may seem to you to be no different than filling up a parking lot. Not so. In fact, the same thing can happen at this nearly 10,000-ton ferry as happens with a small rowboat when everyone sits on one side. Carl Bouchard makes sure the car decks are loaded in a precise manner to ensure even weight distribution.

 

[00:15:01.20] – Speaker 6

How many more, Don?

 

[00:15:06.11] – Scott

But the story of how this ferry operates doesn’t begin with the bow and end with the stern

 

[00:15:14.23] – Scott

A vital part of the team are the shore workers and ticket agents.

 

[00:15:18.02] – Speaker

$25.50, please.

 

[00:15:20.23] – Speaker

Up the ramp, sir. You’ll see a sign, maximum clearance, up that ramp, just straight ahead of you, about 100 yards.

 

[00:15:28.22] – Scott

Sorting out the movement of 850 cars and trucks parked bumper to bumper on two football fields of blacktop is not easy, even if John and Gerry make it look that way.

 

[00:15:38.09] – Speaker

You can tell 86 that he’s got the wrong lane.

 

[00:15:41.17] – Speaker

Lane 10.

 

[00:15:43.29] – Scott

So now you know a little more about the women and men that make BC’s ferry fleet one of the best in the world. Ordinary working people who take pride in their jobs and work as a team. This is the public sector at its best.

 

[00:15:59.08] – Lee Cochran

So the next time you or your family travel on BC Ferries, you’ll know from the ticket agent at the gate to the bridge of the ferry, there are many people working to make your trip both comfortable and safe.

 

[00:16:14.01] – Lee Cochran

What other kinds of jobs do you think you might like to do?

 

[00:16:15.25] – Child

I make my bed and, uh, put the dishes away in the dishwasher and I set the table and put the napkins out and pour the milk.

 

[00:16:32.26] – Judy

Scott, this is where they make those hand-woven silks.

 

[00:16:35.18] – Scott

I wonder if they could weave you some new hair?

 

[00:16:37.23] – Judy

I don’t think they’d have my colour.

 

[00:16:39.24] – Scott

Now that’s something else I wanted to talk to you about.

 

[00:16:42.21] – Judy

We’ll be right back.

 

[00:16:56.01] – Advertisement

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[00:17:40.00] – Advertisement

BC Tel?

 

[00:17:41.07] – Advertisement

Of course.

 

[00:17:42.01] – Scott

BC Tel. Quality. We make it a way of life.

 

[00:17:47.29] – Advertisement

You’re still in bed when the first trucks start rolling. Before this day is through, each man will lift 15,000 pounds of garbage and walk miles of back alley. This job is tough and it’s dirty. It takes a special kind of man to work this hard for you and your community.

 

[00:18:02.16] – Advertisement

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[00:18:03.17] – Advertisement

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[00:18:17.29] – Scott

Welcome back. One of the positive aspects of trade unions is their commitment to social programs. An example of such a project is IAM Canada. The International Association of Machinists cares for their members and for members of the community. In 1980, Guy Stubblefield and the IAM started the IAM Cares program. Now the Machinists are opening 2 centres in Canada.

 

[00:18:45.13] – Guy Stubblefield

The only criteria that is necessary in order to reach service— to receive services is simply to have a disability or an impairment.

 

[00:18:56.19] – Guy Stubblefield

It could be either mental or physical.

 

[00:18:59.19] – Guy Stubblefield

It should— we will make an effort to give priority to those who are severely disabled.

 

[00:19:06.09] – Ron Jackson

IAM Cares will be assisting people, not just members of the Machinists Union or members of other unions, but everyone in the community who has a problem with getting back into the workplace, or in fact getting into the workplace for the first time. Attempts will be made to place them into work that they would be most valuable at, and the type of work we’re talking about is meaningful type work, not $2 an hour type of jobs. We intend to get them off the welfare rolls, off the UIC benefits, off insurance-type programs, we expect them to be able to get back into the workplace and make a very meaningful living and be a part of, and contribute to the community.

 

[00:19:58.05] – Scott

Darren Anderson is a machinist injured in an auto accident last year who is now in the program.

 

[00:20:03.16] – Darren Anderson

My disability is this tremor in my hand, and my right leg toes in a bit.

 

[00:20:09.22] – Darren Anderson

But not much.

 

[00:20:11.14] – Scott

And currently you are employed?

 

[00:20:13.08] – Darren Anderson

I am employed by Cypress Equipment.

 

[00:20:15.22] – Scott

And could you tell me what your job is?

 

[00:20:18.04] – Darren Anderson

I’m a tool crib attendant, which passes out tools, fixes tools, stuff like that. I’m looking forward to getting involved in it, you know, and I’m looking forward to them helping me rehabilitate some.

 

[00:20:36.13] – Scott

It’s programs such as this that show how trade unions are working for us all. It also proves that IAM cares.

 

[00:20:45.17] – Scott

That grey building over behind those masts is one of Canada’s Coast Guard stations.

 

[00:20:49.19] – Judy

And that’s where we’re going for our next story.

 

[00:20:52.02] – Scott

You know, Judy, you didn’t have to get your hair cut for the Coast Guard.

 

[00:20:55.03] – Judy

You’re not going to let up, are you?

 

[00:20:58.29] – Scott

The Canadian Coast Guard. Who are they? And what do they do? Most of us have some image in mind, but how much of that is based on fact and how much is based on film and television? Probably the one image we retain of the Coast Guard is their role in search and rescue.

 

[00:21:15.16] – Glen Stewart

There’s no doubt that that’s the most visible activity that we have. Our ships, our helicopters, our light stations, our search and rescue work, that is sort of the visible Coast Guard. There are other things like the ship safety responsibilities we have where we inspect ships for their integrity and we make sure their crews are qualified and we make sure that the vessel is safe to travel in Canadian waters. Those are things that are not quite so visible and not quite so evident.

 

[00:21:45.04] – Scott

Another major area of responsibility for the Coast Guard revolves around oil spills and other threats to the environment.

 

[00:21:52.04] – Glen Stewart

Canadian Coast Guard has some responsibilities for pollution that emanates from ships. To do that, we have various pieces of equipment that both contain a noxious substance and remove it from the water.

 

[00:22:08.00] – Scott

The Canadian Coast Guard operates 35 light stations on the West Coast, manned by members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. These isolated outposts are vital contact points for commercial and recreational maritimers.

 

[00:22:21.15] – Glen Stewart

Because of the isolated locations that are historically the circumstance of the light station, they have taken on weather reporting, for instance, and they have taken on some search and rescue sighting work that’s not assigned to them, but they simply do it because of their circumstance. And I guess they’ve always been looked upon by the boating community as a communications opportunity.

 

[00:22:46.28] – Scott

The Canadian Coast Guard, protecting our waterways 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

 

[00:22:55.16] – Scott

If you could have any job in the world, what job would that be?

 

[00:22:58.17] – Speaker

Retired.

 

[00:23:00.10] – Judy

You know, Scott, Granville Island’s a really neat place to look around. There’s all kinds of little alleys and shops and stuff around all these little corners. It’s a great place to explore.

 

[00:23:08.20] – Scott

Why don’t we go do some more?

 

[00:23:09.23] – Judy

Okay.

 

[00:23:10.05] – Scott

We’ll be right back.

 

[00:23:13.14] – Advertisement

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[00:23:23.05] – Advertisement

You know, it’s really fun to meet people from all over the world, and I enjoy sharing this beautiful province, and I’m proud to be a member of Local 40.

 

[00:23:30.06] – Nick Worhaug

The hospitality industry is the second largest in BC. We know our work is important to all British Columbians. Working with other trade unions, the business community, and the public, we make the good times better in BC.

 

[00:23:43.16] – Advertisement

All across our province, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers serve British Columbians. In supermarkets, drugstores, fruit and vegetable packing houses, lumber stores, warehouses, meatpacking plants, and other jobs, the 17,000 UFCW members work to ensure that consumers get the best service possible. In turn, the UFCW members spend their wages in the community, helping to improve the economic and social well-being of British Columbia. United Food and Commercial Workers, helping to make British Columbia better for all of us.

 

[00:24:14.26] – Advertisement

I invented the telephone so that folks could talk to each other inexpensively. So far, Canadians have resisted corporate attempts to dismantle our phone system, but now with Mulroney’s trade deal, it’s happening again. This trade deal could double your home phone bill. It’s already happened in the States. And we could be the next unless you call this number now. When it’s your phone, there’s nothing free about free trade.

 

[00:24:44.01] – Judy

Scott, I wonder what gem of wisdom Charlie has for us this week.

 

[00:24:46.29] – Scott

I don’t know. Let’s find out.

 

[00:25:02.19] – Charlie Farquharson

What’s this I hear about them selling off our Air Canada? They never asked me nothing about doing that. I thought all of us owned it. We’ve been paying taxes for them planes ever since they was called the TCA and only had the outside toilets. Are we all gonna get a share of your profits when the bleeding thing gets sold? All I hear is we gets a chance to to buy the shares in it when it goes on the sock market as a private corpulation. I don’t know if I hold with all this privatiazation. I sure didn’t care too much for it when it happened to me during World War 11. I was privatized at $1.30 a day when I joined up in your Royal Muskoka Dismounted Foot. Mind you, I never got to go overseas, so the only danger I ever faced was going to breakfast in that mess where they put the salty peter in our porridge for to make us never mind the girls. That was more than 45 year ago, and the wife and former sweetheart thinks the dang stuff is finally starting to work. But I don’t think this country could ever have been built just by your privates and your fries.

 

[00:26:08.09] – Charlie Farquharson

You take that CP Railroad, was built from mayor to mayor when BC joined up with your fathers of conflagellation. That weren’t no paying proposition. It was for years like my farm is now, nonprofit. And I still wonder just what Ottawa’s planning to do with all that money they’re gonna get from privateerization? I suppose they’ll find more ways to spend it. It’s our money. If they’d spend it as if it was their money, them common housers would be a mite more careful. That briny Mulroney’s been spending our money like a drunk sailor down to his own riding the Bayhomo. I’m sorry, I’d like to apologize if there’s any drunk sailors watching me, because you fellas spend your own money.

 

[00:26:46.15] – Judy

Well, Scott, throughout the show you’ve been giving me shots about my new hairstyle.

 

[00:26:50.01] – Scott

Me?

 

[00:26:50.15] – Judy

Yes, and now I’m going to tell you why.

 

[00:26:53.04] – Scott

Oh, well, this ought to be good.

 

[00:26:54.24] – Judy

You know those wash-in, wash-out hair rinses?

 

[00:26:56.25] – Clay Perry

Mm-hmm.

 

[00:26:57.21] – Judy

Well, mine didn’t rinse out.

 

[00:27:00.06] – Scott

Kids, don’t try this at home.

 

[00:27:02.20] – Judy

See you next week.

 

[00:27:03.17] – Scott

Good night. No, actually, I like it. I just took a little time to get used to it, that’s all.

 

[00:27:08.26] – Judy

Thank you.

 

[00:27:10.10] – Narrator

The producers of BC at Work would like to thank the following companies for supplying goods and services. Our show hosts travel BC in the luxury of a 28-foot motorhome provided by Okanagan Manufacturers. The crew vehicle for the show is a 1988 Chevy S-10 Blazer, compliments of Westminster Auto Leasing. Our fuel expenses throughout BC have been provided by the Petro-Canada dealers and agents. Our energy is Canada. While on the road, the cast and crew of BC at Work Stay at Coast Hotels, the choice of the frequent traveller. Everyone on the show can stay in touch no matter where we are in the province thanks to Autotel and cellular equipment compliments of Cellular Express and BC Cellular. Aerial footage made available through the services of Vancouver Helicopters. This week, BC at Work has been made possible in part by contributions from Labour Canada, CUPE BC, CU&C Health Services Society, and the Health Sciences Association of British Columbia.