Ukraine has yet to receive the more than two dozen refurbished light armoured vehicles Canada promised to the war-torn country in September 2023, CBC News has learned.
The vehicles remain stuck in bureaucratic and corporate limbo — even though the Department of National Defence delivered the decommissioned vehicles to an Ontario-based company for reconstruction almost two years ago.
The fate of the restoration contract, publicly acknowledged around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s high-profile visit to Ottawa and believed to be worth between $150 million and $250 million, yet is now shrouded in secrecy.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged at the time that in addition to supplying brand-new light armoured vehicles, his government was "working with Canadian industry to provide Ukraine with refurbished Canadian Armed Forces armoured vehicles."
He said it represented "one of many initiatives underway where Canada is leveraging different resources to support our Ukrainian counterparts, including through innovative allied coalitions, working with Canadian industry a
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