Natural Resources committee  As you know, Anik F2 is an equatorial system that sits out at geosynchronous orbit. It sits above a particular position of the earth and rotates around the earth at the same speed of the earth and stays there. It has a footprint into Canada and barely makes 60 degrees north. So t

Natural Resources committee  We were asked—in fact that’s the reason I took the job as president—to produce a long-term space plan for the benefit of Canada. We had an extensive consultation process starting in September of 2008. Over the following 18 months, we had round table discussions with all of indust

Natural Resources committee  I'll explain what it is first.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Benoit, Chair, Mr. Gravel, Mr. McGuinty, vice-chairs, and distinguished members, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I'd like to offer a short statement, and I'll be pleased to answer any questions afterwards. This short brief will touch on how space, our s

Industry committee  This is an excellent question. I dislike using numbers because they change rapidly, but I believe that for pieces larger than 10 centimetres that NORAD tracks right now, there are 9,800 pieces. Don't quote me on the number, but the idea is that it's a large number. Now, space i

Industry committee  Let me clarify a couple of things. Up to about 800 kilometres, the gravity of the situation self-cleans. Space is quite clean up to about 800 kilometres. For example, on my space walk I dropped a bolt, just a tiny bolt. It was an embarrassing thing to do, but it happens. There

Industry committee  This is a fascinating area, because climate change really is an opportunity. The way I look at this is that the atmosphere is fragile, very fragile. From the pictures that Bob, Frank, and Koichi showed you, it's incredibly thin. Trace element analysis of that incredibly thin atmo

Industry committee  —over Beijing for those two weeks. It's not clean air over Beijing, and you can see that from space. There will be changes. There will be melting in the north. That is clear. There will be some sea level changes depending on what happens. The way I look at it is twofold. First

Industry committee  You know what? One of the interesting things about trying to answer questions like this is that you're always expected to answer it in a sound bite and give one sentence that describes it all. Sound bites are good for media, but they're not good for strategic planning, so the way

Industry committee  The numbers he has there are the totals. The $300 million is a base, and when it adds up to $358 million.... The $390 million is the reprofiling. Those are part of a stimulus budget and left over from the old project.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  If you want to do a first-rate job on some of these examples that I gave you--if we're discussing agriculture, if we're discussing ocean science, if we're discussing safety, sovereignty, and security, if we're discussing our possible or potential role in exploration--you are look

Industry committee  First of all, I have to say that the work done by the region around the Saint-Hubert Airport is quite impressive. I have been in the region for 20 years. I am from Ottawa but I have known the South Shore since 1972. I do not have any detailed answer for you but I can tell you th

Industry committee  Yes, it's a kind of museum.

Industry committee  It has not yet opened its doors to the public, that will be in June.