Let me just provide the following comments in response to that question. I've also read in the press the oft repeated comment that in the past MDA was already a subsidiary of a U.S. company called Orbital Sciences.
The one question that I have, and I don't remember the answer to it, is in what five-year timeframe did that happen? That's important because the MDA we're speaking of today does not have the same technological capabilities as, I believe, MDA had under its first iteration as a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences. I think the technology that needed to be developed for RADARSAT-2 came a little bit further on during that relationship.
Just as an another example, in 1999 the United States tightened the ITAR rules, based on something called the Cox report. There had been huge concern in Congress that there had been high technology leaked to the Chinese. What this did—and again, it is important to put these things into their historical context—is this. Until that time, ITARs were regulated in the U.S. by the Department of Commerce. The goal of the Department of Commerce, just as it is of Industry Canada and of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, is to promote the industry so that they achieve benefits and revenues—and that's normal. Once the ITARs were tightened, that was passed over to the State Department, and one can argue that the national security, foreign obligations, etc., aspect came into play.
So the sale of MDA today is a different sale of different technology. Maybe the key thing that should be mentioned is that as of December 2007, RADARSAT-2 is not just a bunch of technology that was built here, but it produces images, and those images can be bought.