I want to follow up on Dr. Stojak's comments on U.S. security laws and the genesis of RADARSAT-2 in Canada and the intentions.
RADARSAT-2 was developed by the Canadian government in part to strengthen our ability to protect Arctic sovereignty. The Americans do not recognize Canada's claim on the Northwest Passage, and as late as December 2005, there was an issue around an American submarine in the Northwest Passage. It seems indefensible that we would take $445 million of Canadian tax dollars to invest in a satellite to defend our sovereignty and then have that satellite fall to the use of the Americans, to be used against Canadian sovereignty in a dispute on the Northwest Passage.
I'd like you to quote the U.S. security law, the specific phrase, once again on the affiliate side.
Further, I'd like your opinion, or that of any one of the experts here, on whether there is any way that a Canadian government, can protect a Canadian company against U.S. security law. If this transaction were to go through, is there any legislative or legal means to absolutely, totally inoculate the RADARSAT-2 technology against that law?