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Ottawa hands Irving Shipbuilding $8B deal to start 3 new navy destroyers | Globalnews.ca

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Defence Minister Bill Blair said the new destroyer project will be the largest and most complex shipbuilding effort undertaken in Canada since the Second World War .

The $8 billion pays for only the first six years of construction work on the three new ships, however.

Military planners now estimate the total cost to outfit and launch the three “River-class” destroyers will eventually hit $22.2 billion .

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