Canada’s new fleet of Multi-Purpose Icebreakers (MPI) will help ensure that the Canadian Coast Guard has the versatile vessels necessary to carry out a variety of mission types across the country. These new vessels will support critical services such as icebreaking in moderate conditions, maritime search and rescue, scientific research, environmental response, emergency towing, maintenance and deployment of buoys, as well as support for offshore fisheries patrols. The Multi-Purpose Icebreakers will operate year-round on Canada’s eastern and western seaboards within Canada’s Exclusive Economic Zone; in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the St. Lawrence River, and the Great Lakes; in the western and lower Arctic during summer months.