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WILLIAMS: Canada's Naval procurement costs are skyrocketing -- how did this happen?


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In a recent op-ed in this paper, I outlined how a distorted procurement process led to a ten-fold increase in costs, from $26 billion to $286 billion, for 15 Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) ships for the Royal Canadian Navy. There isan obvious follow-up question where were the red flags that should have alerted the government to these escalating costs? Allow me to suggest three fundamental failings and to recommend solutions.
First, our inability to ask the right question. Last year, the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates requested that the Office of the Parliamentary Budgetary Officer (PBO) undertake a costing analysis to build the CSC. Unfortunately, it was not tasked to report on the costs to both build and to maintain the ships throughout their lifetime. Its report, tabled in Feb. 2021, identified acquisition costs of $77.3 billion but, as it was not requested to do so, made no estimate on the follow-on costs to operate and ma ....

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Richard Shimooka: The lessons Canada's military didn't learn from the Somalia inquiry


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Exactly 25 years ago, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) were in the midst of a profound crisis with troubling news emerging daily from the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia. Originally convened to investigate the brutal murder of Shidane Arone in Canadian custody during operations in Somalia three years earlier, it quickly uncovered evidence of mass hazing of soldiers and other troubling incidents, as well as a brazen coverup by senior officials at National Defence Headquarters. It ultimately resulted in the chief of the defence staff resigning after being implicated in manipulating documents for public release two years earlier, and a sweeping set of reforms to the military. ....

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