Canada’s Submarine Fleet Repair Bill Doubles to $3B as Subs Sit in Dry Dock

HMCS Windsor, one of Canada's Victoria-class long range patrol submarines, returns to port in Halifax on June 20, 2018 after completing a five-month deployment in the Euro-Atlantic region. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

Maintenance of Canada’s four submarines is expected to cost about $3 billion from 2022 to 2025—double the maintenance costs for 2018 to 2021. Only one of the four submarines was deployed this year, for just 43 days.

The figures were outlined in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.