This picture is of the Norwegian Cruise ship arriving in Charlottetown this morning, carrying 3800 passengers + crew. It was raining so we saw no one on the street until 11am.
I have to wonder why they even come there is still debris everywhere from FIONA and tonight 4,700 are still without power 3+ weeks after the hurricane.
We are told cruise tourism is very important, really? Well maybe we should go out in our canoe and welcome the rich foreigners with trinkets for sale, sing and dance to get money. The whole tourism industry is such a joke in PEI, it’s all about gouging the tourists. Since FIONA many restaurants and shops have closed early and will not re-open before May 2023. So what is the point?
Well the tourists can visit our solution to homelessness in Charlottetown, since the police refused to beat them up and push them off Island as it had been suggested by some politicians in Charlottetown. We have stark looking containers where they can sleep at night during winter months behind a nice barbed wire fence. Security will also control their movements. They will only have access to the shelter at night after 8pm. This is how much our political class think of anyone who is poor. I am sure they will not mention that to the tourists in Charlottetown a village of 40,000 people.
Larry Muffin At Home 
Rudy Guiliani when he was mayor of New York at night rounded up on school buses everyone who did not have a place to stay and dumped them across the river in New Jersey. Most could not afford the transit fare to get back to New York. If they did they were picked up the next night and dumped in New Jersey. Out of sight: out of mind and someone else’s problem. I’m sure New Brunswick would welcome the homeless.
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The poor will soon be the majority class in North America. Those cruise shops wouldn’t be bad homes. They to me make hideous travel options, destroying the environment and overwhelming the places they visit. What a hideous backdrop to beautiful places like Charlottetown. Cruise ships, homes for the homeless. Container ships, home for those heartless politicians.
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Agree
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Ces politiciens oublient qu’avec le prix des loyers qui monte en flèche, il y aura de plus en plus de gens sans abri. On les mettra tous dans un ‘camp’ entouré d’une clôture?
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Ils s’en fichent pas mal.
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Perhaps PEI could charge cruise ship tourists for admission and use the revenue to help pay for sheltering the homeless.
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The Port of Charlottetown is a private company. The port was sold years ago because they was next to no ship traffic. The company charges $7.50 for each person coming with a cruise ship including crew. They also charge dock and parking fees for the ships and sell souvenirs in the terminal and in the other buildings passengers must pass through. None of that money goes anywhere but in the pocket of the owners.
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Nasty capitalism at work. Some money should come to either Charlottetown or the province. I am sure the politicians of both levels of government are being given money for their reelection.
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I wouldn’t have thought Pei would have a homeless problem..at all…I
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Like all places there are social problems. They are well hidden from the visiting tourists.
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Startling contrasts in a first World ‘civilised’ country. A single unemployed person here only receives $688 per fortnight, less than $48 per day.
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