Last week taxpayers gave almost half a billion dollars to a shipyard owned by one of Canada’s richest families.
The federal government’s news release on this new funding was barely reported on, having come in the middle of summer, when few are paying attention.
The payment of an extra $463 million to Irving Shipbuilding is to allow the firm to modernize its Halifax-area facilities so the company can build the Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC).
