Trudeau made the announcement in Vancouver's Stanley Park, outlining a plan that would see 16 of the 18 ships built in a fleet-renewal project anchored in Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards. Two others — Arctic patrol ships that will be modified for the Canadian Coast Guard — will be built at Irving Shipyards in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Crews work on two Canadian Coast Guard vessels at the Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards in North Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday. It's going to be ship after ship after ship," he said. (Ben Nelms/CBC)But while most industry workers expressed relief at the promise of easier times on the horizon, there was some anxiety around the announcement.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2019 04:30 UTC