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Auditor general focuses on shipbuilding plan

Months after his scathing F-35 report shook the Harper government’s plans to buy the stealth fighter, Auditor General Michael Ferguson has turned his attention to another military procurement project: the Harper government’s $35-billion shipbuilding plan. Ferguson’s report on the National … Continue reading

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Watson: Hope they float (1)

By all accounts, it was a politically watertight process that produced Wednesday’s award of a $25-billion combat-ship contract to Halifax’s Irving Shipbuilding and an $8-billion contract to Seaspan Marine of Vancouver for non-combat ships: No politicians involved, only bureaucrats; oversight … Continue reading

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