Ottawa pays for repairs to Navy’s new Arctic patrol ships because of expired guarantee Yesterday

A senior defence official says Canadian taxpayers are on the hook with regards to fixing a minimum of two of the Royal Canadian Navy’s new Arctic patrol vessels.

Defence Division deputy minister Invoice Matthews says that’s as a result of the one-year guarantee on these two ships has expired.

The federal authorities is planning to purchase eight Arctic patrol vessels from Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding, together with six for the Navy and two for the Canadian Coast Guard.

Three of the ships are completed, although Matthews instructed a parliamentary committee right this moment that will probably be as much as Irving to repair the issues within the third ship and all others as they’re nonetheless underneath guarantee.

Whereas a technical investigation into the ships was solely just lately accomplished, preliminary stories have recognized points with the ships’ engine cooling and consuming water methods.

The Canadian Press reported final week that Ottawa can also be on the hook for repairs to the Royal Canadian Air Drive’s Cyclone helicopters, one among which crashed off the coast of Greece in 2020.

Six Armed Forces members died within the crash.