In terms of what we did at the Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT-2 is a unique model. As Mr. Bujold said, this is a decision dating back to the mid-1990s. To repeat what Mr. Bujold said, at the time we expected the commercial remote sensing industry to become very vibrant, to the same level as the commercial satellite communication industry was.
There were some lessons learned from that. They were trying to apply that to the remote sensing industry. When we proceeded with this program, it was done on a competitive basis. We went out to industry, and there were responsive answers from industry. MDA, at the time, was selected as the best proposal.
We have to say that in the end it did work. We do have a satellite in orbit; RADARSAT-2 is working very well. We have impressive imagery coming from RADARSAT-2. We have an agreement with MDA to receive our share of the contribution in terms of imagery.
As Mr. Bujold said, we have an agreement that is solid enough to ensure that we will have access to our imagery over the coming years. For us, the emphasis is now on using the imagery for the benefit of Canadians.