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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Government may have underestimated cost of new resupply ships

Joint Support Ship |A new wrinkle appears to have emerged in the Harper government’s $35-billion national shipbuilding plan following revelations planners may have underestimated how much it will cost to build new resupply ships.

Successive federal governments have been planning to replace Canada’s fleet of 45-year-old support vessels for the better part of a decade.

The first replacement was supposed to have been delivered last year, but design and money problems have kept the $2.6-billion joint support ship project on the drawing board.

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