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    Changing Tides

    January 9, 2010 by Richard Oliver Mayne
    The helicopter detachment with HMCS Winnipeg (2nd) prepares a Sea King for operations over the Gulf of Oman, July 2005. PHOTO: CANADIAN FORCES In 1945, naval minister Douglas Abbott announced he wanted Canada to have “a good, workable little fleet.” Some interpretations of Abbott’s statement...