COVID-19 pandemic.“We have negotiated with the private company to continue that service to the end of December,” Transportation Minister Jill Green said in an interview Tuesday.She confirmed the province will subsidize the private ferry service – run by East Coast Ferries – until the end of the month but would not say how much is being spent because negotiations were ongoing.
The extended service will operate four days a week, weather permitting. Increasing call to connect N.B. island to Canadian mainland during pandemic The extension falls short of the year-round service that residents have been seeking.“The premier promised he would set up a committee or a study to take to the federal government to help us, so the federal government.