Irving shipbuilding

Treasury Board President Scott Brison has played down his ties to Irving Shipbuilding, saying his only contact with the company before spearheading efforts to pause a rival shipbuilder's project was a letter sent to him and several other ministers.

A project that will transform a former Canadian Coast Guard site at Dartmouth into an ocean research and development facility has received a multimillion-dollar investment.

Rod Cumberland knows what it feels like to be the target of one of Canada’s most powerful corporations and richest families – to have, in effect, a bull’s eye on your back.

The $100 million figure, calculated as of March 31, 2015, was the cumulative total from three years of reviews of contracts that turned up evidence the government has been routinely overcharged.