National Shipbuilding Strategy has accomplishments worth highlighting – opinion piece

By Howie Smith
Defence Watch Guest Writer
The recent Ottawa Citizen article citing the release of the University of British Columbia (UBC) report entitled ‘ONTO the Rocks (14 December 2017)’, forms part of a continuing narrative that advances the thesis that Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) is broken and destined to fail. Several defence experts and industrial players have focused on the challenges within individual NSS projects, while often failing to recognize th