A report is urging the Harper government to scrap the proposed Arctic patrol ships and instead use the money to build high-speed patrol boats for the east and west coasts and rebuild coast guard icebreakers, like the Amundsen, above, for northern operations.


The Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen clears a path through the ice on the Saguenay river in front of the La Baie sector of Saguenay, Que., in 2005