The sight of Prime Minister Mark Carney emerging from a South Korean submarine flying the Maple Leaf flag this week was symbolic of the urgency with which the prime minister appears intent on restoring the rusting Canadian Armed Forces.
Carney was in the country to attend the Asia-Pacific Co-operation summit and took the opportunity to visit the Hanwha Ocean shipbuilding facility in Geoje. The Hanwha Ocean company, with its partner Hyundai, is bidding for the multi-billion-dollar contract to build 12 subs to replace the four second-hand Victoria class boats that the Canadian government bought from the British in the 1990s.
