For many years, Sally sold cookies, the best chocolate-chip cookies. Neighbours flocked to her cookie stand, to get their chocolate fix.

One day Johnny, who lived down the block, set up a lemonade business. He sold litres of lemonade. 

On Sunday, Johnny, getting ready for "show & tell," was settling his accounts; he wanted to tell his friends how profitable his business was.

Johnny looked at the money, i.e., the expenditures of his customers. But then he had to subtract the costs of the lemonade and paper-cups. And he had to do something for Mrs. Smith next door, since he had trampled her flowerbed when he set up his stand.

He couldn't pretend that his profits were all the coins he had collected. His profits weren't so large now. It might not be good enough for "show and tell."

Johnny thought long and hard - how could he explain how valuable his business was? He came upon a great idea. He contacted Sally. His customers were her customers too. He would add her cookie revenues to his "show & tell."

For decades, cruise ships, military ships, tankers, and ferries have used the Esquimalt Graving Dock (EGD), a unique federal owned, operated and maintained facility, supported through user fees and our tax-dollars. The EGD is the largest solid-bottom commercial drydock on the West Coast of the Americas. It is one of only three multi-user ship repair facilities in the world recognized for its environmentally responsible systems (see ISO 14001 environmental management system).

Activity at the EGD does not flow from Ogden Point cruise ship operations alone.

Marg Gardiner