Industry committee  I think Marc Garneau actually made pretty much a good case for the main arguments that MDA management would put forward. I think it is wrong to claim that I am an expert. I am not an expert on these matters. I am here as an individual and as an employee describing the effect th

Industry committee  Yes. The RADARSAT Constellation mission is the follow-on to RADARSAT-2 and is something for which the government approved funding but hasn't been fully spending that funding. The CSA has not been spending that funding. It is those kinds of projects that would allow MDA to continu

Industry committee  Well, MDA is currently busy making missions that have been booked, but it's true that there is a coming shortage of future space missions.

Industry committee  Well, MDA is quite a diverse company that does a lot of different things.

Industry committee  That's probably partly why the company is splitting, in some sense. There is an information products division that will go on and still be MDA, and that company does a lot of Internet transactions with thousands of things happening every second. But in terms of satellites, there

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I think we have built an industry, and it has been successful. The government has even planned to build future satellites along the lines of RADARSAT-2, such as the RADARSAT Constellation mission I mentioned.

Industry committee  There are about 3,000 employees worldwide.

Industry committee  Not all will go as part of this transaction.

Industry committee  I think I'm quite aware of the military involvements of MDA. MDA certainly is involved in military activities and surveillance, and RADARSAT-2 is involved in military surveillance. There's a line that one somewhere draws; everything is shades of grey, but at some point one's invo

Industry committee  As I said, I think the primary things for me were the professional concerns about jobs being lost and Canadian skills disappearing, but on a personal level there are many things that deeply disturb me about ATK. I don't think it is fair to just say it is the same as another large

Industry committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me to speak. It's not easy for me to be here today. I'm a loyal MDA employee and have been for eight years. I do not want to damage the good name of MDA or curb our prospects as a strong Canadian company. However, there are aspects of t