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January 16, 2018 by Mary Campbell

UPDATED: Of Ships And Men (Or Rather, Man)

This week, I decided to focus my attention on two (luckily related) stories I’m interested in. Stories I’ve been following for years (eight years for one, one year for the other) but following in a kind of hit-and-miss way. Like I was watching Game of Thrones, but only when I…

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Tags: breach of trust, Canadian Surface Combatants, Davie, Halifax-class frigates, HMCS Preserver, HMCS Protecteur, Irving Shipbuilding, Joint Supply Ships, Judy Foote, Justin Trudeau, Marie Henein, MS Asterix, National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy, National Shipbuilding Strategy, NSS, Peter MacKay, Public Works and Government Services, RCMP, Rona Ambrose, Seaspan, Stephen Harper, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman

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