It’s hard to believe spending $3 billion in taxpayer money to subsidize repairs for cruise ships and other private shipping made it on to Ottawa’s to-do list during the pandemic.
Yet the Ottawa Citizen’s David Pugliese broke the story that Canadian taxpayers will soon be forced to put billions into bankrolling a government shipyard that will overwhelmingly benefit a few private businesses.
The federal government’s plan to convert the Esquimalt Graving Dock (EGD) repair yard on Vancouver Island into a full-service ship construction facility.
