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The estimated program cost is 10.4 billion Canadian dollars, of which just under 6 billion dollars is the purchase price of the planes. (The program cost includes weapons, training simulators, spare parts and renovations at the Air Force bases in British Columbia and Nova Scotia where the planes will be stationed.) As with the 1980s vintage CP-140 Aurora planes they will replace, the main duty of the newcomers will be tracking submarines. But, as is the case now, they will most likely perform a number of other tasks ranging from tracking drug smuggling in the Caribbean to monitoring pollution in Canada. In particular, they wanted it to consider a proposed marine surveillance plane from Montreal-based Bombardier.
Persons: , François, Doug Ford of, François Blanchet Organizations: Boeing, Air Force, Titan, Yves, Bloc, Bombardier Locations: British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Caribbean, Canada, United States, Britain, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Quebec, Doug Ford of Ontario, Montreal
Still, Trudeau has not called for speaker Anthony Rota to resign, and Rota is also resisting the calls. Peter Julian, the New Democratic Party House leader, and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet both said Anthony Rota should step down. "This is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians." "I think it's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast unequivocal support for Ukraine," Trudeau said, per the BBC. "It's been deeply embarrassing for Canada, and I think it was deeply embarrassing for the president of Ukraine," said Gould, who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors.
Persons: Justin Trudeau, Trudeau, Anthony Rota, , Peter Julian, Yves, Francois Blanchet, Julian, Yaroslav Hunka, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Rota, Hunka, Zelenskyy, Simon Wiesenthal, Dmitry Peskov, Peskov, Vladimir Putin, Pierre Poilievre, Will, Karina Gould, It's, Gould, Daria Litvinova Organizations: Service, Nazi, New Democratic Party House, Bloc Quebecois, Kremlin, Liberal Party, BBC, Politico, 1st Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Waffen, SS, SS Galicia Division, Waffen Division, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Holocaust Studies, Ukraine, Liberal, Conservative, Canada, Hunka, Associated Press Locations: Canada, Ukrainian Nazi, Rota, Ukrainian, Moscow, Ottawa, SS Galicia, Ukraine, Tallinn, Estonia
OTTAWA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Canadian lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a proposal by Canada's Quebec separatist party asking the federal government to sever ties with the British monarchy. The motion by Bloc Quebecois was defeated with 44 votes in favour to 266 against in the House of Commons. read moreBritain colonized Canada beginning in the late 1500s, and the country remained part of the British empire until 1982. Now it is a member of the Commonwealth of former empire countries that count the British monarch as head of state. Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa, editing by Deepa BabingtonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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