Ceremony to be held Friday for cutting of steel on the first Joint Support Ship

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough will take part in a steel cutting ceremony for the first of two Joint Support Ships. That is happening on Friday at Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards.
Taxpayers will have to spend $1.1 billion extra on new navy supply ships, the Liberal government recently acknowledged.
Previously the cost of building the two Joint Support Ships at Seaspan shipyards had been pegged at $2.3 billion.
But the governm