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Canada’s army expects to receive new trucks almost a decade after they were promised by the Conservative government.

But there are questions about whether there is enough money to maintain the new vehicles when they do arrive.

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The government originally announced the truck purchase in 2006, saying they would be delivered two years later. But the trucks will now be delivered starting in 2017, Tanya LeBlanc, a spokeswoman with the Department of National Defence, confirmed to the Citizen.

She noted the contract would be awarded to the winning bidder in the summer. Defence industry officials expect that to occur sometime in June. The $725-million project will see the purchase of 1,500 trucks.

But a recently released audit by DND’s Chief of Review Services has raised questions about how the department crunched the numbers on the funding set aside for long-term support of the new trucks. It recommended the department revise its estimates and “take other measures to manage constraints of limited sustainment funds.”