B.C., Quebec shipyards each get new icebreaker, Liberals accused of electioneering
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The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent sails past a iceberg in Lancaster Sound, Friday, July 11, 2008. The federal government is expected to end nearly two years of mystery today and reveal its plan to build a new, long overdue heavy icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
OTTAWA – The Trudeau government is adding a second heavy icebreaker to its plans for the Canadian Coast Guard, a move that will boost the shipbuilding industry in two key provinces for the Liberals – and which could come at a hefty cost to taxpayers.
OTTAWA The Trudeau government is adding a second heavy icebreaker to its plans for the Canadian Coast Guard, a move that will boost the shipbuilding industry in two key provinces for the Liberals and which could come at a hefty cost to taxpayers.
Liberal cabinet ministers announced Thursday the government has doubled the number of heavy icebreakers it will build over the next decade, with Vancouver s Seaspan Shipyards and Quebec-based Chantier Davie being given one each.
Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan said the addition of a second vessel reflected the changing conditions in Canada’s increasingly accessible Arctic. Splitting the work between two yards, she added, was a prudent move to ensure both vessels arrive on time.
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Her days start at 6:00 a.m. Her focus is surviving.
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That is the same advice federal and provincial health officials have been giving Canadians since the first vaccines were approved in December. But it is in direct contrast to advice given Monday by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.
NACI said the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are preferred because they don t carry the remote risk of a new blood-clotting syndrome.
The 16-member panel of doctors and other vaccine experts said that Canadians who aren t at high risk of COVID-19 may choose to turn down the offer of Oxford-AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson and wait until they can get an mRNA vaccine.
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