A decision on which off-the-shelf design will be purchased for the navy's new frigates is being delayed until next year, the Public Services and Procurement Department said Wednesday. It will take the government until the late winter or early spring to decide on a winner. "It's not going to affect ship construction, which is still planned to start in the early 2020s," Campbell told CBC News in an interview. Campbell said that the navy's requirements for the kinds of warships it wants and the systems that will go into them has not changed. The previous Conservative government faced criticism for allowing the design of the navy's much smaller Arctic patrol ships to be watered down.

Source: CBC News September 06, 2017 22:28 UTC