{"id":20084,"date":"2013-05-02T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20084"},"modified":"2013-05-02T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T22:00:00","slug":"canadas-arctic-patrol-ship-design-program-just-a-job-creation-scheme-that-doesnt-actually-create-jobs-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/canadas-arctic-patrol-ship-design-program-just-a-job-creation-scheme-that-doesnt-actually-create-jobs-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Arctic patrol ship design program just a job creation scheme that doesn’t actually create jobs in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CBC’s Terry Milewski<\/a> on the Harper government’s much-heralded shipbuilding program which is far more expensive than it needs to be — because of the demand that the work be done in Canada — and yet somehow doesn’t even manage to create Canadian jobs:<\/p>\n

Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose and Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced March 7 in Halifax that Ottawa will pay Irving Shipbuilding $288 million just to design — not build — a fleet of new Arctic offshore patrol ships.<\/p>\n

Irving will then build the ships under a separate contract.<\/p>\n

However, a survey of similar patrol ships bought by other countries shows they paid a fraction of that $288 million to actually build the ships — and paid less than a tenth as much for the design.<\/p>\n

In addition, the design of Canada’s new ships is based upon a Norwegian vessel whose design Ottawa has already bought for just $5 million.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian ship, the Svalbard<\/em>, was designed and built for less than $100 million in 2002.<\/p>\n

Experts say the design price is normally 10-20 per cent of the total cost of the ships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But don’t worry … jobs are being created or saved by this major Canadian government project … in Denmark and in the United States:<\/p>\n

Another criticism of the project is that much of the design work — in a project meant to create Canadian jobs — is actually going overseas.<\/p>\n

Although Irving will manage the design project in Nova Scotia, it has subcontracted the actual production of final blueprints to a Danish firm, OMT. Seventy Danish ship architects will work on those.<\/p>\n

The job of designing the systems integration is going to Lockheed Martin and the propulsion system will be designed by General Electric, both U.S. companies.<\/p>\n

This is only to be expected, say supporters of the project.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been dormant here for better than two decades now. We don’t have the skill sets inside the industry,” said Ken Hansen, editor of the Canadian Naval Review in Dartmouth, N.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CBC’s Terry Milewski on the Harper government’s much-heralded shipbuilding program which is far more expensive than it needs to be — because of the demand that the work be done in Canada — and yet somehow doesn’t even manage to create Canadian jobs: Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose and Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,5],"tags":[727,273,140,610,745,61],"class_list":["post-20084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-military","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-denmark","tag-design","tag-norway","tag-rcn","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5dW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20087,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions\/20087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}