Another case of government waste and mismanagement

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/ottawa-to-spend-400k-to-scrap-canadian-coast-guard-ship-destroyed-by-vandals-six-years-ago/ar-AA1wTVMK?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ef15632b813242e8b92de6f425cafe02&ei=35

The story of this Coast Guard ship has been one disaster after another in mismanagement.  In the end, this is waste and mismanagement of taxpayer's money.

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S Corporal McLaren M.M.V. will have the unfortunate honour of having spent the majority of its 10 years of service as a boat-shaped hunk of metal more accustomed to dry land than swelling seas.

Last fall, the coast guard awarded a $412,000 contract to Marine Recycling Corporation to “ recycle, through ship breaking, the CCGS Corporal McLaren ” after the ship was deemed “surplus” after only a decade of existence.

It’s the end of a saga that has stumped both police and procurement experts over the years.

It began in November 2018, just five years into ship’s service, when the Hero-class vessel was ruined after vandals broke into the Nova Scotia shipyard overnight where the ship was being refit and cut some of the cables keeping it out of the water.

When shipyard employees at Canadian Maritime Engineering (CME) arrived at work the next morning, they discovered an extraordinary scene: the 42.8-meter vessel partially capsized and submerged in the frigid waters of Sambro Harbour, support cables hanging loosely off one of its sides.

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The vessel — named after Medal of Military Valour-recipient Cpl. Mark Robert McLaren who was killed by an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan in 2008 — remained partially submerged for over a week before it was refloated, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada spokesperson Craig Macartney.

In a lawsuit against CME filed years later, the coast guard claimed the vandals caused $14 million in damage due to CME’s negligence. The company denied any wrongdoing and said in court filings that its shipyard also sustained significant damage.

At the time, Halifax police quickly determined the damage was likely caused by vandals who walked onto the site — which had no fencing, according to reports by Global News — and cut the support cables."