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Canada’s plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine is still spinning its wheels

FILE--A Canadian Armed Forces Coyote armoured surveillance vehicle drives at Kandahar Airbase in Kandahar, Afghanistan Tuesday February 5, 2002.  Twenty-six-year-old Trooper Richard Renaud of Alma Quebec, a member of the 12e Regiment blinde du Canada, was killed in a blast Tuesday, Jan.15, 2008 involving a Coyote light armoured vehicle. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kevin Frayer

A plan to rebuild and modernize two dozen decommissioned Canadian light armoured vehicles for donation to Ukraine is stuck in bureaucratic limbo more than nine months after the defence department handed the vehicles over to an Ontario company that specializes in restoration, CBC News has learned.