Canadian-owned Queen Elizabeth-class ships would be major national assets and likely receive careful maintenance. Supporting them at home would require yards capable of substantial capital-ship refits. Britain could then send some of its own ships to those facilities, increasing the number of modernizations completed across the wider fleet. The work would support Canadian industry while also giving naval cooperation a continuing political and economic foundation.
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Capital ships could build Canadian refit capacity
Maintaining Canadian battleships could create domestic refit capacity that also served Royal Navy ships and strengthened Commonwealth ties.