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On Friday, I had an article about the Canadian government’s refusal to provide parliament with a schedule for the delivery of the navy’s new supply ships or the coast guard’s Polar-class icebreaker because it deems such information secret.

Conservative MP Todd Doherty had asked the federal government to supply information about the Joint Support Ship (JSS) program as well as the planned Polar-class icebreaker as a follow up to an appearance at a Commons committee in early November by Kevin Stringer, associate deputy minister at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

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Doherty had asked for the integrated program schedule in which Seaspan Shipyards, with input from the government, outlined when it was going to deliver the Polar-class icebreaker and the JSS.

The federal government, however, has now filed its response to Doherty’s question, noting that the schedule “is subject to commercial confidence restrictions and cannot be shared.”