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Monday, March 07, 2011

Ottawa won't be working with U.K. on building warships

Halifax classThe Conservative government is slamming the door shut on a British proposal that wants the two countries to work together in building new warships.

"Canada will not be pursuing collaboration with the United Kingdom on our new surface combatant fleet," Jay Paxton, a spokesman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay, said Sunday.

Paxton was reacting to comments made by London's top diplomat in Ottawa, who told The Canadian Press that Canada and Britain could make better use of scarce public dollars by collaborating on new warships.

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