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The interview begins with George' s early life, apprenticeship, and reasons for moving from the east to the west coast, moving on to a more general discussion of the Canadian shipbuilding industry and his experience of labour organizing in that industry. George discusses building B.C. Ferries, icebreakers, cancellation of the Polar 8 ship contracts, and the frequent negative impacts of federal government political decision-making on the shipbuilding industries in B.C. and on the east coast,…