A contract to supply Ukraine with refurbished light armoured vehicles is officially dead, the defence minister told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday.

The Department of National Defence gave 25 decommissioned troop carriers to Armatec Survivability in Dorchester, Ont., located outside of London, almost two years ago, to be rebuilt.

The now-defunct project was driven by the defence department as Canada struggled to find weapons and equipment to Ukraine to help repel Russia’s full-scale.

The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), a Crown corporation that brokers defence contracts, was given the task of negotiating the details of the contract, which was estimated to be worth up to $250 million. The plan was listed in the federal agency’s quarterly report until this summer when it

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