Quebec’s Davie shipyard is being added to the federal government’s strategy for shipbuilding, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
This means negotiations can start between Ottawa and Davie for the construction of seven new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard.
The announcement was made on April 4 at the shipyard in Lévis, on the south shore of Quebec City, with a number of other top officials from different government levels and the company directors.
Quebec Premier François Legault said the deal being negotiated by Ottawa is valued at $8.5 billion.
Davie now joins Irving Shipbuilding in Nova Scotia and Seaspan Shipyards in British Columbia as part of the national strategy that was announced by the Harper government in 2010….