On October 7th, KEVIN GRIFFIN and MATTHEW ROBINSON from Vancouver Sun visited the Vancouver shipyard in north Vancouver. The government has awarded 3.3 billion federal contract to Vancouver shipyard for ordering ten new non-combat ships. The goal for this project is that to provide more job opportunities in the skilled trades. The president of Seaspan Shipyards, Brian Carter, has announced that their aiming to modernize the North Vancouver shipyard with a cost of $185 million. At this moment there is only 150 workforce, but within three to four years, the workforce will increase to 1000. Federal Public Works Minister Diane Finley claimed that Canadian ship workforce is able to develop 2 billion dollars per year to benefit the Canadian society. I believe that this project is going to benefit Vancouver’s economy as they expected to generate more than 15000 jobs in the next 30 years. More importantly people who are apart of the workforce are paid as much as $47 per hour which is a stable salary.