Following the Polar 8 Project cancellation, CCG funded the modernization overhaul and hull extension of the Louis S. St-Laurent in order to maintain a strategic presence in the Arctic Ocean.
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The Arctic Patrol Ship Project is based on a Royal Norwegian Navy patrol boat design used in the Barents Sea with a polar class of PC 5; thus they will be significantly smaller and less capable than what was envisioned in the Polar 8 Project, which would have extended the lacking capabilities of the Canadian Coast Guard's operations in the Arctic Ocean.
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The project was developed as a means to assert Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic Ocean.
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