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Secrecy surrounds fees paid to Irving for Canada’s 15 multi-billion-dollar warships    

A drama is unfolding about the affordability of the CSC program. The uncertain, but still escalating costs may well mean paying Irving whatever severance fees are due and starting the CSC program from scratch. It would also mean the procurement process returning to common-sense factors such as transparency, affordability, and accountability.

Design of the future Canadian surface combatant will be based on BAE’s Type 26 warship. The Trudeau government is refusing to say how many millions Irving Ship Building Industries has been paid as the sole prime contractor for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project to build 15 frigate ships, writes Ken Rubin. Image courtesy of Public Services and Procurement
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