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Davie Shipbuilding and a number of its Montreal-area suppliers will hold a news conference Thursday to warn about the federal government’s “inaction” on tending shipbuilding contracts and how that will affect jobs.

Spencer Fraser of Davie Shipbuilding will outline the various proposals that the yard has made to the Liberal government (for icebreakers, supply ships, humanitarian response/transport ship, etc) and “present the results these efforts have yielded to date.” (all rejected?).

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Politicians and unions in Quebec have been turning up the heat on the Liberal government, questioning why Davie shipyards in the province isn’t getting any more work from the federal government. Davie converted a commercial container ship into a supply vessel for the Royal Canadian Navy. The ship, the Asterix, goes into service early next year and under the agreement will be leased to the RCN. Davie says it is ready to quickly convert another vessel into a supply ship.

But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has said thanks but no thanks.

Transport Minister, and former navy officer, Marc Garneau said the federal government doesn’t need another supply ship. ”We cannot artificially create a need for something that doesn’t exist,” he told reporters.