National defence says it doesn’t know when it determined that a $70-billion project to buy new warships had fallen five years behind schedule, adding billions of dollars to the cost.
That lack of knowledge about a massive mega-project is unprecedented, according to the department’s former top procurement official, and is further proof the Canadian Surface Combatant project has gone off the rails.
DND now acknowledges that while there were indications in early 2020 the project schedule was slipping, it doesn’t actually know when it was determined the Canadian Surface Combatant program was facing significant delays. “There was no specific month/year,” DND spokesperson Jessica Lamirande wrote in an email to this newspaper. “It was an evolving schedule that continued to shift.”
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