That's the price you pay when an entire shipbuilding industry is mothballed thanks to incompetent procurement decisions spanning half a century.

But I'm sure the Chinese will gladly take over building our ships for much cheaper!

Wait, does Bombardier also build ships?

There's absolutely nothing that this country can get right. Conservative or Liberal, but particularly under Liberal 'leadership.'

We fucking deserve to be invaded and conquered by the Chinese at this point. It's not like it would be particularly difficult. Weak, vapid nation-states like ours must decide to either fail and perish, or succeed and build. And right now Canadians have decided to fail and perish.