Canada’s Navy Can’t Keep One Submarine at Sea. Ottawa Is Still Arguing About F-35 Stealth Fighters

Canada’s Navy Can’t Keep One Submarine at Sea. Ottawa Is Still Arguing About F-35 Stealth Fighters

Canada has four submarines. For years, the Royal Canadian Navy has struggled to keep even one of them at sea at any given time. The country’s own procurement documents acknowledge the Victoria-class fleet is “increasingly obsolete and expensive to maintain” — and replacements are still more than a decade away. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has spent months relitigating a fighter jet contract it already signed, reopening talk…