Cost of Coast Guard Ship Nears $1B as Questions Mount Over Federal Shipbuilding Plan

Cost of Coast Guard Ship Nears $1B as Questions Mount Over Federal Shipbuilding Plan
A Coast Guard vessel at Seaspan Shipyards in North Vancouver, B.C., on Aug. 6, 2020. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—The federal government has quietly revealed that it expects to pay nearly $1 billion to build a new research vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard.

That is nearly 10 times what the ship was originally supposed to cost when the project was launched more than a decade ago, and three times the latest estimate from 2016.