The federal government is asking defence contractors in allied nations about the sorts of submarines and maintenance capabilities they could offer Canada.
A request for information (RFI) — the first step in the formal process to replace the navy's four-decade-old Victoria-class submarines — was issued Sunday on the federal tendering website.
At the recent NATO summit in Washington, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced it would proceed with the project but did not offer any concrete timelines.
The idea of acquiring new submarines was mentioned in last spring's defence policy update only as a possibility. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Defence Minister Bill Blair insisted in the aftermath of the policy's release that the project was more a question of when and how much, rather than if.
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