Canadian Navy: Canadian and Iroquois-Class Vessels

canadian navy: The Canadian government does not have funding at present to maintain a modern submarine capability, Perry told the Chronicle Herald, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Royal Canadian Navy is further hamstrung by its current lack of destroyers. David Perry, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, said that this year's budget essentially kicked 8.48 billion of funding down the road to 2035-36, meaning that Canada's navy will not receive needed submarines to patrol its Atlantic shores. All four of its Iroquois-class vessels are now decommissioned and construction of the new Canadian Surface Combatant vessels in Halifax's Irving Shipyard will not begin until the mid-2020s. Perry noted that Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic is back up to levels not seen since the 1970s and 1980s, when the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union was at its height. Their construction must wait until Irving completes the construction of six Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships, vessels designed to secure Canada's Arctic frontiers against Russian naval incursions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.