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Government to begin construction on new warships despite not knowing the final cost or design
The project has already faced significant increases in cost from the original estimated price tag of $26 billion
Work is starting on Canada’s newest warship fleet even though government officials acknowledge they don’t have a final cost for the multi-billion dollar project or a final design.
Defence Minister Bill Blair and Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, the head of the Royal Canadian Navy, announced Friday that construction will begin for a test module for the first Canadian Surface Combatant or CSC. Eventually 15 such warships will be produced to replace the current fleet of Halifax-class frigates.
The building of the test module, essentially a small section of a piece of the ship, allows for construction techniques to be further refined at Irving Shipbuilding on the east coast.
But at a technical briefing Thursday, senior government officials acknowledged they have yet to figure out a final cost for the CSC project, considered the most expensive and complicated government program since the Second World War. In addition, the design of the ships is still evolving, they acknowledged.
The project has already faced significant increases in cost from the original estimated price tag of $26 billion. Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux now estimates the cost of the ships to be around $84 billion.
Jack’s Note: Here the libs go again, pandering to the Irving Ship Building Monstrosity when they could go offshore and buy better ships for far less. It defies belief but this is what you get when you vote for fancy socks and nice hair (nothing between the ears at all except air). As often noted by others ‘elections have consequences’ and this group of pandering idiots are finally ‘promising’ to move on this situation because they know they are in deep shit and they just HAVE TO DO SOMETHING NOW! They are so transparent they are beyond belief.
My View: Don’t trust them on this and DON’T let them sign any contracts yet!
