Future HMCS Harry DeWolf - (AOPS)  

create jobs and opportunities for hard working middle-class Canadians. As reported in the recently released Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strat- egy: 2017 Annual Report, contracts awarded between 2012 and 2017 through the National Shipbuilding Strategy will contribute close to $8.9 billion of gross domestic product and approximately 8,800 jobs per year, on average, will be created or maintained between 2012 and 2022. “In addition, there has also been signif- icant economic benefits to Canada through the application of Canada's Industrial and Regional Benefits (IRB) Policy, which requires the shipyards and their major suppliers to under- JANUARY 2019 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 9