Only the cabinet, but staying in caucus. Seems inline with his career, symbolism vs action. Stay and have input in cabinet, or sit as a back bencher that can’t do anything.
Yeah early 2030s. Current projection is the first 9 ships all entering service by 2040, and the remaining 6 by 2050. Hopefully by then we’ll have a helicopter carrier program so that we can have a semblance of force projection and an effective means of coastal disaster relief.
Pretty sure those could be built in the Saint John yard, were it brought back to life. The Aussies have a pair they half built, the Ottomans licensed and built their own as a drone carrier. A trio of those would go a long way to leveling up the RCN, and would be a huge employment boost for the region.