Kitsilano Coast Guard Station announcement to be made today

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) -Federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Hunter Tootoo will join Premier Christy Clark this morning for an announcement at the Kitsilano Coast Guard Station in Vancouver.

In November, newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a mandate letter for the Fisheries Department that signalled the re-opening of the base in English Bay.
The former Conservative government closed the station in 2013, a decision that was loudly criticized at the time and again when a grain ship spilled 28-hundred litres of bunker fuel in the harbour last April.
Mayor Gregor Robertson, who will also be at today’s announcement, issued a statement in November calling the base one of the most important public safety resources for the city’s busy harbou

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