摘要：Military procurement features prominently in Canadian public policy discussions, not least because the federal government plans on spending $240 billion over the next two decades on ships, maritime helicopters, fighter jets, search and rescue aircraft, and army vehicles.1 However, one particular procurement is nearly always absent from those discussions, namely, the replacement of Canada’s Victoria-class submarines. The HMCS Chicoutimi, Victoria, Corner Brook, and Windsor, launched by Britain between 1990 and 1993 and purchased secondhand by Canada in 1998, are currently between 20 and 23 years old.
