The disastrous new ship building program now featuring budget redactions
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/natio...arship-project
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National Defence has brought in a new and unprecedented shroud of secrecy around a controversial warship project now estimated to cost taxpayers more than $80 billion.
After withholding documents for almost three years, the Department of National Defence has released nearly 1,700 pages of records that were supposed to outline specific costs and work done so far on the Canadian Surface Combatant program.
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But all the details of what taxpayers have so far spent and what type of work has been done by Irving Shipbuilding for that money have been censored from the records.
“I pretty much got nearly 1,700 blank pages,” Ken Rubin said of the access to information request he filed to National Defence in April 2021 about the warship program. “I have never seen this level of secrecy or lack of accountability over a project that is costing so much.”
Rubin, an investigative researcher who has used the access law to obtain federal documents for decades, said there was not a single cost figure contained in any of the 1,700 pages. One page noted that Irving was required to perform 19 specific tasks, but all details were censored. Others pages listed numerous amendments made to the CSC program, but all details were blacked out. Information about the annual profit Irving has made so far on the CSC project is censored.
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Somebody will have to explain to me how what is basically a frigate that we're building 15 of will come with a per ship cost of 5.6 billion +.
The british managed to build 2 of the most advanced conventionally fueled aircraft carriers for a total of 7.6 billion pounds.
I know that Irving is getting rich and getting the government to pay for things that they aren't suppossed to, but this is blindingly mismanaged and now the govt is hiding it.