I would ask PSPC, but they tend to tell me to bugger off when I ask for documents lol. We can try and track it down and see which one of us gets it first. 🤣
Can I just offer a smidge of doubt that “trilateral” means what we would like it to mean? Here is a Bollinger quote from August with emphasis added by me. It seems to express a certain mindset.
“I am proud to represent the only shipbuilder in the United States in Bollinger Shipyards that has the capability, capacity and expertise to begin construction on these critical vessels on day one that will project American power and dominance in the Arctic.”
Trilateral in this case means two bilaterals, one between Canada and Finland, and one between the USA and Finland. Helsinki Shipyard is building a Polar for Canada right now, and the US just announced it intends to build icebreakers at two shipyards in Finland. The USA and Canada don't have enough expertise to really share.
Bollinger's press team is tone deaf. When the ICE PACT was signed, they posted something on X about Louisiana now being the icebreaker capital of the world. Earlier this year they said in a press release that it was important that all U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers be built in the USA. A couple of months later, they joined with Seaspan and Rauma Marine Constructions of Finland in a deal that would see icebreakers built in Finland, based on a design that Seaspan owns (but involved Finnish designers)...
I agree that Bollinger is tone deaf- typically MAGA, sadly. I had read the earlier statement as well.
Thanks for giving me the image of two bilaterals. That makes more sense, and seems to be, increasingly, a substructure that is being built by the Canadian government in multilateral efforts that involve the U.S..
Although it would be nice to see what the JSOI actually says…
I would ask PSPC, but they tend to tell me to bugger off when I ask for documents lol. We can try and track it down and see which one of us gets it first. 🤣
Can I just offer a smidge of doubt that “trilateral” means what we would like it to mean? Here is a Bollinger quote from August with emphasis added by me. It seems to express a certain mindset.
“I am proud to represent the only shipbuilder in the United States in Bollinger Shipyards that has the capability, capacity and expertise to begin construction on these critical vessels on day one that will project American power and dominance in the Arctic.”
Trilateral in this case means two bilaterals, one between Canada and Finland, and one between the USA and Finland. Helsinki Shipyard is building a Polar for Canada right now, and the US just announced it intends to build icebreakers at two shipyards in Finland. The USA and Canada don't have enough expertise to really share.
Bollinger's press team is tone deaf. When the ICE PACT was signed, they posted something on X about Louisiana now being the icebreaker capital of the world. Earlier this year they said in a press release that it was important that all U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers be built in the USA. A couple of months later, they joined with Seaspan and Rauma Marine Constructions of Finland in a deal that would see icebreakers built in Finland, based on a design that Seaspan owns (but involved Finnish designers)...
I agree that Bollinger is tone deaf- typically MAGA, sadly. I had read the earlier statement as well.
Thanks for giving me the image of two bilaterals. That makes more sense, and seems to be, increasingly, a substructure that is being built by the Canadian government in multilateral efforts that involve the U.S..