Mr. Alain Royer at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On April 3rd, 2008. See this statement in context.

April 3rd, 2008 / 11:50 a.m.

Professor and Researcher member of CARTEL (Centre d'application et de recherche en télédétection), Department of Geomatics Applied, Faculty of Literature and Social Sciences, University of Sherbrooke

Alain Royer

If the Canadian Space Agency or MDA are no longer part of the Canadian observation system, it seems clear to me that we are going to lose the ability to decide the time of the intervention. The satellite cannot observe everywhere at the same time. It goes around its orbit and its camera is pointable. Who will decide to where it will be pointed? The system is presently managed by the Canadian Space Agency but obviously we do not know who will exercise this control in the future. It is extremely worrisome.

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