Foreign Affairs committee  I would tend to agree. I'm not sure if I would agree that it would be as widely representative as Mr. Last suggests. But certainly if we look at the past roughly 20 years, since Canada took an active interest in space again, from the last major focus, which was 1967, and the Ch

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not an expert on detailed capabilities of the United States in the Arctic, but what I do understand is that both the United States and Canada share the same difficulties, share the same problems of investing resources and where to invest those resources, and share the same in

Foreign Affairs committee  It's important to recognize that Canada's national space policy or strategy, if there is one, is in fact made up of not one but many elements, and the real issue of the absence of a national space policy or strategy stems from the absence of a coherent integrated approach to it.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I'll take a different tack from Mr. Last to the question you raised. I'm not sure, as I wasn't here when Mr. Byers made those comments, but I infer that he's raising the question of the access issue and the question of the launch of Radarsat-2 and the dispute that emerged

Foreign Affairs committee  It has no impact whatsoever on the way Canada looks on the international stage, period. It has no impact in terms of the landmine question working with American soldiers overseas. It's irrelevant.

Foreign Affairs committee  Radarsat has to do with remote sensing. It has nothing to do with weaponization of space. It looks downward. It's not a weaponization issue.

Foreign Affairs committee  ATK, like most major corporations, has numerous divisions that generally run independent of one another. I don't know the exact organizational structure of ATK, per se. If we took that perspective on this issue, I would suggest there are numerous companies in this country that ar

Foreign Affairs committee  I understand the word “politics”, Mr. Rae. I understand it entirely, but there are two separate issues here. So it may go on as a basket, but you raise a lot of questions that are important, questions in which history is important to us. We went through these agonizing decisions

Foreign Affairs committee  You've raised numerous important questions. I don't disagree with your view that this isn't going to be undone, although I remain a little puzzled as to the extent to which what particular issue the government answered upon. What drove the decision? Was it the ownership of Radars

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here, Mr. Chairman, and it is a pleasure to be able to speak in front of this committee and take, having listened to the last group, somewhat of an alternative perspective on the issue of this Radarsat-2 question and also on the general issue of