Canada intended to increase her navy according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1939 no. 6

An item reported that Canada intended to buy a destroyer from England and to increase her personnel strength to a number of 140 officers and 1.825 sailors. Furthermore was a naval reserve to be founded. The four minesweepers built in England were in the meantime completed. Usually were six destroyers at Esquimalt and another two at Halifax stationed. The Canadian cabinet intended to commission 18 destroyers, six at the East and six at the West coast. In which time this intention was to be achieved was unknown, Further more was the purchase of motor torpedo boats considered.