Julie Vignola at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On June 2nd, 2021. See this statement in context.

June 2nd, 2021 / 4:55 p.m.

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Julie Vignola Bloc Beauport—Limoilou, QC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister and senior officials, for being with us today.

I sense that you can guess that my questions relate to Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy. As part of that strategy, you expect to accept delivery of the second Arctic offshore patrol ship, or AOPS, in 2021‑2022. The first AOPS was delivered in July 2020 and is expected to be commissioned this summer, in 2021.

You expect to sign a strategic partnership agreement with a third shipyard in the spring of 2021, which should be the Davie shipyard, in theory. Spring normally ends around June 21. How are the negotiations to include Davie as a third partner going?

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