National Defence committee  The plan for fleet renewal was developed in 2018-2019.

National Defence committee  No, we still consider the plan to be a solid one. We have not updated it past that point.

National Defence committee  The vessels that we are contracting out for that are southern vessels as opposed to northern vessels. They would operate principally along the St. Lawrence River. Within the contract that we let, we specify that they meet Transport Canada guidelines in order to operate within Can

National Defence committee  No, we do not contract for third parties in the north.

National Defence committee  Yes, there are risks in the provision of the new fleet and there will continue to be, bringing on Davie, when they get under the umbrella agreement and start building our program icebreakers. There will continue to be risks, but there is sufficient mitigation put aside in the pur

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. To answer your first question, the two polar icebreakers are in addition to the six program icebreakers that we have. The first polar icebreaker will be built out in Vancouver Shipyard. We are currently doing the engineering work on that, and construc

National Defence committee  Very briefly, the big risk in all of this is the retirement of the Louis S. St-Laurent before the polar icebreaker come on line with the vessels that Neil mentioned that we've bought. We can handle the low- and middle-Arctic well without that, but it's the high-Arctic with the po

Fisheries committee  The plan right now is to see those vessels in the late 2020s. By “late 2020s”, I would mean that 2028-29 is the current schedule when we hope to see those vessels.

Fisheries committee  Also, to answer your previous question about draft, the design draft that we have right now on those is 3.65 metres internally. We will see how industry can do with that, but that's the type of draft we're looking at for these vessels.

Fisheries committee  They're right now being designed to break a minimum of 40 centimetres of ice—

Fisheries committee  —or a maximum of around 40 centimetres of ice.

Fisheries committee  Yes. They will be in Canada. Under the “build in Canada” policy, all of the ships the Coast Guard builds will be built at Canadian shipyards. We know for the midshore multi-mission vessels, which will not be built at the big yards that are doing the big ships, there is strong int

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are currently in the design stage for the midshore multi-mission vessel, looking at the requirements with our colleague, Mr. Mes. We have gone out with a request for information last year into the beginning of this year for industry input. This vessel wi

Fisheries committee  We will be going out during the year 2023-24 for design. Following that, which will hopefully take a year, we will be seeing a build contract issued. We will be seeing those in the late 2020s.

Fisheries committee  [Technical difficulty—Editor] delivered. The speed of delivery will depend on the shipyard that's chosen. It won't be one of the three big shipyards under the national shipbuilding strategy. It will be a small shipbuilder, as was the intent of the national shipbuilding strategy f