There are about 7,000 people working in this industry in Canada. Clearly they are highly skilled, with high-paid jobs. We have in Canada the highest rate of export in space industry on a global basis: about 50% of everything we do is exported. The great majority of those people are highly skilled. In my particular case, 60% of the thousand people who work in my organization have some form of post-secondary technology education.
On September 21st, 2006. See this statement in context.