The head of the Royal Canadian Navy is admitting to some worries that the military’s ability to operate with only 12 frigates in recent years could be used as a way to justify permanently shrinking the size of Canada’s maritime fleet.
But Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee says some of the navy’s current limitations, which includes an inability to deploy two of the frigates to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region at the same time, can be directly attributed to a lack of warships.
Topshee’s comments come as the federal government is reassessing the cost of building 15 new warships starting in the early 2030s….