The Department of National Defence has quietly cancelled a contract with a Canadian firm to refurbish armoured vehicles to be delivered to Ukraine — but the federal defence minister won’t say why.

Defence Minister David McGuinty was pressed about the contract at the House of Commons national defence committee on Tuesday as part of a general briefing on Canada’s defence spending and NATO commitments.

Conservative defence critic and committee vice-chair James Bezan said the contract with Armatec Survivability in Dorchester, Ont., near London, was for 25 light armoured vehicles to be refurbished by the company, but that none of those vehicles had been delivered to Ukraine and the contract had been “paused or cancelled.”

“A decision has been made to nullify the contract with that co

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