Canada Place

Says, "In Vancouver, what hotel and attractions do you recommend for an Alaska trip next year?" Okay.

So the first thing I wanna say about Vancouver is I think you should stay, if you can, Oscar, get yourself down by Canada Place.

Canada Place is where some of the main hotels are.

Like, the Pan Pacific Hotel is there.

Expensive.

It's expensive.

There's also a Fairmont there, also expensive.

Um, but the cruise ship is at Canada Place, and if you're staying at Pan Pacific, you literally take an escalator downstairs to your cruise ship.

This Thanksgiving weekend marks the end of the cruise ship season in Vancouver.

The Port of Vancouver says by the time the final ship docks at Canada Place on Monday, 1.4 million passengers will have visited the area, with 358 cruise ship calls at Canada Place between February and October.

The port says that's an 18% increase in passenger visits compared to last year.

Chance McKee with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says it's a huge boost to the local economy.

So many things going on.

If you're planning your day, we have the Conservatives and Lauren Dirksen, their leader, up at 11 o'clock for a policy announcement in Battleground, Surrey, with the Greens launching what they call a major platform plank, the Economic Vision for BC's Future, with the leader, Emily Lowen, and the Greater Vancouver Area candidates outside of Canada Place at 10.30. 30 so that is looks like a significant announcement from the Greens have been kind of building up to that with some wealth tax and other stuff Jillian we've talked about the interesting campaign and this appears to be maybe another major platform plank as as they call it but they seem like I got a little momentum on their side the Greens or maybe I'm just reading into it but what do you think

Yeah, I mean, I think it's really interesting.

I almost wondered if the NDP got wind of what was coming from them because we sort of had those dueling wealth tax announcements.

You need to have an organized plan for how you're getting there ahead of time.

You can't just show up and take the SkyTrain like you and I did to Canada Place.

So I guess I'm really comparing Vancouver and Seattle.

I did like...

$1,000 level of a trip back to 1986.

The sales of Canada Place, there's a picture, date from 1986, the year this city hosted an international expo.

I do not remember all of my world fairs and so on anymore.

This was a miss and a miss and a get.

Jen tried what is Montreal, Matthew tried what is Toronto, and then Daniel got it with Vancouver.

I didn't know it was Vancouver because the Canada Place appearance is distinctive and We could see it from our hotel and from the cruise dock when we left on our Alaska cruise.

And so I was like, oh, that place in Vancouver that was like blocking my view of the cruise ship.

Yeah.

Yes

... and you're at Canada Place.

Yeah.

Yes.

He printed out different options for my mother.

Standing there, we managed to book her something online, which was actually a really nice hotel called the Azur Hotel, A-Z-U-R, which is only a couple of blocks back from Canada Place.

Mm-hmm.

Was about 100 euros, so maybe 115, $16 cheaper, and she got a glass of champagne to the room.

[laughs] Yeah.

So later on that afternoon, my mother decided she'd go back and relax in the hotel, and we went to a place I'd highly recommend.

Um, it's called, uh, Tap & Barrel, right there beside Canada Place.

Oh, yeah.

We want to move ahead the economic province of British Columbia.

Last week, you were at Canada Place with seven others of your former colleagues.

And You had moved to Centre BC at that time.

Seven of those went back to the BC Conservatives.

the front

of the World Trade Center have gone back to the Conservatives except for Eleanor Sterko.

Except for

Eleanor Sterko.