I can't dress this up any differently. We did retire HMCS Preserver on the east coast and we did retire HMCS Athabaskan. Those decisions were taken to allow the navy to focus good dollars on the best and most highly useful ships of the fleet. We're incredibly proud of the two ships the navy asked to retire. They have done incredible service for our country, and there is a national shipbuilding procurement strategy to re-deliver capacities like those two classes of ships that have been retired. We will bridge to the arrival of those ships in time by compromising.
On February 25th, 2015. See this statement in context.