By Dave Makichuk, Western Standard
You might recall the running joke, a few years ago. It was said that the West Edmonton Mall had more submarines than the Royal Canadian Navy. And yes, they were real, honest-to-goodness submarines, deep sea-tested in fact.
Whether or not that was true, it often got a good laugh.
Canada tried to change that image, acquiring four British-made, diesel-electric submarines (Upholder/Victoria-class/ Type 2400) in 1999 — submarines nobody else wanted. Pakistan and Portugal didn’t want them. Even Chile didn’t want them.
