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2 Volume 73 Number 1
15 February 2021
versity of British Columbia, and for having estab- purchase (including mailing cost) from NABC by
lished the Bill Reid Foundation, and is currently its dropping a line to our membership director,
advisor and Founding Director. We will also be in- Lynn Harrison, and we will be very happy to
viting Mr. Graham Fuller an American author process your order at cost.
and political analyst, specializing in Islamist ex- I look forward to staying touch with you during
tremism. He was also the formerly vice-chair of this time in spite of the pandemic and hope that
the National Intelligence Council, and also served you will take in the upcoming presentations by
as Station Chief in Kabul for the CIA. A "think our speakers*.
piece" that Fuller wrote for the CIA was identified
as instrumental in leading to the Iran–Contra af- Yours aye,
fair. Due to Captain (N) Jean Stéphane Ouellet’s
operational commitments, he will be slotted in our
speakers’ program when he becomes available. King
I am also pleased to share with you a recently *We will advise via direct email to you on our
published paper by the NAC on the CSC (Canadian speakers and their topics prior to each presen-
Surface Combatant) program in advance of the tation on the last Wednesday of the month.
PBO’s (Parliamentary Budget Officer) report to
parliament. The NAC Maritime Affairs team did an
excellent job of outlining the process and the com-
plexities of costing the Canadian Surface Combat-
ant (CSC) project. This issue has been the subject
of several news stories and commentary in the
past few weeks and the PBO will be releasing a
costing study on CSC to Parliament in and around
25 February. A summary of the paper, which has
required a significant level of effort from the small
NAC Public Affairs team, can be found at the link
below.
https://www.navalassoc.ca/wp-content/
uploads/2021/02/CSC-Report-NAC-Feb-2021-
LR.pdf

The paper can also be found on the main page of
the NAC website. Please feel free to share with
others who might be interested in learning about
the CSC program.

As the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlan-
tic celebration could not be held in 2020 and not
even in 2021 at this time, the celebration coin
struck by NAC national will become a collector’s The NABC website is available at
item since there were only a limited number of www.noabc.com
them produced for the occasion. Your Naval Asso-
ciation of BC has acquired a few of them for those Members are encouraged to check
who might be interested in acquiring them. Our the Website.
plan is to gift them to naval veterans living in our
area who actually served in the Battle of the Atlan-
tic, as a small token of our appreciation for their Shipbuilding Monument Project
service. The picture of the coin is shown below. As For an update on this project follow the
our record shows only a handful of the BOA naval link below to a Power Point presentation.
vets living in our region, if you know of anyone
who has served in the Battle of the Atlantic thea- https://sites.google.com/site/
tre, please share their contact information and we vancouvernavalmuseum/the-shipbuilding-
will deliver (or mail) the coin to them from the monument?authuser=0
NABC. If you collect military coins, you can also

http://www.noabc.com/