[3] They also have a marine fabrication shop[4] as well as two engineering and logistics firms: Fleetway Inc, and its subsidiary Oceanic Corp, all located in Dartmouth Nova Scotia.

[15] Politically, this resulted in an outcry from the Quebec caucus of Pierre Trudeau's Liberal party, and to resolve the situation, the Tribal Refit and Update Modernization Program (TRUMP) for the Iroquois-class destroyers was tied to the CPFP.

[26][27][28][29] In 2019 the Canadian government granted Irving Shipbuilding a $500-million contract to do maintenance work on at least three of its Halifax class frigates as part of an overall $7 billion commitment to all 12.

[56][57] It wasn't until January, 2015 that Irving Shipbuilding and the federal government signed a contract to start construction of the six Arctic offshore patrol ships for $2.3 billion.

Irving Shipbuilding created the fund as a condition of its multi-billion-dollar contract to build arctic patrol vessels for the Government of Canada.

Marine Fabricators carries out the initial work preparing steel for the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships currently under construction at Halifax Shipyard.

[106][107] In 1995 Irving Shipbuilding purchased The East Isle Shipyard in Georgetown, Prince Edward Island from the provincial government[14] and used it to construct tugboats,[108] for its Atlantic Towing fleet until 2010, when it was shut down and sat vacant for 13 years.

[124][125][126][127][circular reference] In 1996, in face of Shelburne Ship Repair closing, the province decided to lease the facility to Irving Limited.

Minister of Transportation Richard Mann proclaimed, "The province has just made a deal with Steel and Engine Products Limited - STENPRO - an Irving company up the coast in Liverpool.

"[128] In January 2010, ownership of Shelburne Ship Repair was transferred to Irving Shipbuilding in an agreement under the province's Industrial Expansion Fund whereby Nova Scotia would provide an $8.8-million loan for the yard's upgrades.

[129][130][131] Later in 2010, the province of Nova Scotia & Irving Shipbuilding invested $16.6 million in upgrades of Shelburne Ship Repair to modernize the wharf, including the yard's buildings and offices, its cradle, and the marine railway.

[133] Acquired around 1996,[134] The 18-acre site has 600 feet of deepwater wharfage and load-out area and a 127000 square foot fully enclosed high bay assembly building with over head cranes.

Irving Limited is often criticized by both the local government and the media over its scale of operations, with some people claiming the family holds a monopoly over the atlantic provinces.

[138][139][140] The Irving Whale is a Canadian barge that sank off the north coast of Prince Edward Island, while en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Bathurst, New Brunswick, taking 4,200 tonnes of fuel oil down with it.

[142] On November 30, 2013, engineer Qing Quentin Huang, an ex-employee of Lloyd's Register, a subcontractor to Irving Shipbuilding, was arrested under the Security of Information Act after attempting to communicate secrets to a foreign power.

However, At the time, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) were intercepting communications made to and from the Chinese Embassy after obtaining a warrant.

[149] CSIS advised the RCMP of phone calls Huang allegedly made to the embassy, and claimed he had "offered to provide Canadian military secrets" to the Chinese government.

[150] That prompted the Ontario National Security Enforcement Team, working with the Toronto Police Service, to have undercover operators pose as Chinese agents and approach him about acquiring the documents, resulting in Huang's arrest.

In 2013 a United States federal appeals court ruled in favour of Irving subject to the contracts arbitration clause, and a settlement was reached.

[156][157] On November 28, 2013, between 200 and 300 workers walked off the job, complaining of growing frustrations over increasing numbers of disciplinary letters, firings and suspensions of other employees.

The tax deal was accidentally disclosed, but not debated, in late March, after a year of negotiations between the city and Irving officials.

[162] In 2017, 13.4 million confidential records were leaked to German reporters Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, from the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Irving Limited had created an offshore insurance company in Bermuda that allowed them to move millions of dollars in profits out of Canada and into the tax haven.

then re-insured major risks to those vessels by paying lower premiums to a non-Irving reinsurance company based in Bermuda.

[164] Irving Shipbuilding threatened to sue journalist David Pugliese 90 minutes after submitting questions to the Department of National Defense.

Pugliese's questions revolved around potential problems with the welding on the new Arctic patrol ships that Irving is building for the Royal Canadian Navy.

[166][167] Shortly after, the company again threatened to sue journalists at the Globe and Mail, after Office of Innovation minister Navdeep Bains alerted them that journalists were asking why Irving Shipbuilding received a $40 million benefit toward an Alberta french fry plant as part of its industrial benefits requirements established under the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship program.

[170][166] Irving then claimed it threatened to sue journalists to protect the government's shipbuilding reputation, but the DND disputes the company's story.

"[167][172][171][169] The federal government in 2019 allowed Irving Shipbuilding to claim a $40-million industrial benefit credit for an Alberta french fry factory as part of the contract to provide the Royal Canadian Navy with new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships.

This agreement, according to the terms written at the time, stipulated that any upgrades required by the builders be financed with their own profit margins.