Soaring costs threaten DND’s shipbuilding mandate

As currently planned, the forecasted costs to build and maintain the CSC will exceed the available funding to equip the Army, Navy, and Air Force combined. It would eviscerate the department.

The Irving Shipbuilding Inc. facility in Halifax, N.S., pictured in July 2017. Irving Shipbuilding has been tasked with building 15 warships for the Royal Canadian Navy Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY ALAN WILLIAMS

July 14, 2021

OTTAWA—Having a public debate on the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project for the Royal Canadian Navy is in everyone’s best interest. And so, I was pleased to read

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