BC Ferries' board cuts ties with CEO Nicolas Jimenez

What's next

Brian Anderson, the company's vice-president of strategy and planning, is interim CEO, effective immediately. The board has also started a "revitalization review" of its services.

Contract for four new vessels

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The exit comes two days after the B.C. Conservatives won the provincial election. The party had called for Jimenez's firing over a $1-billion contract with a Chinese state-owned shipyard for four new vessels.

Jimenez told a House of Commons committee last year that all six compliant bids were from foreign countries. Two Canadian shipyards pre-qualified, but neither submitted a proposal.