OTTAWA - The head of a Germany company bidding to win Canada's lucrative submarine contract said it is possible to build its submarines, or part of them, in Canada — but probably not any time soon.

If Ottawa wants anything like that baked into a deal for the Royal Canadian Navy's next fleet of patrol submarines, it should come at the end of the contract, many years down the line, to mitigate risks to the major, multi-billion dollar procurement project.

"If Canada wants to go this way, then it's my task to show them," Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems CEO Oliver Burkhard told The Canadian Press in an interview.

He said his company is setting up domestic production in India for six subs of another type designed by the German firm, since the government was after local shipbuilding benefits under

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