Ottawa seeking to sell Coast Guard Ship Tracy for $250,000, despite spending $9-million repairing it in 2009, docked in Prescott

NDP procurement critic Erin Weir says the sale raises 'very serious questions' about government decision-making and he plans to ask the House Government Operations Committee to investigate.

Ottawa is offering for sale a former Coast Guard vessel, known as CCGS Tracy, for a minimum of $250,000. It was repaired for millions only eight years ago. Photograph courtesy of GCSurplus.ca

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

February 15, 2017

The federal government is trying to sell a decades-old former Coast Guard ship for as little as $250,000 despite spending $9-million on major repairs to the vessel only eight years ago, The Hill Times has learned. The multi-tasked vessel, known as Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Tracy ...

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