What I said earlier was that in the face of government priorities, space should be an essential element of government infrastructure. This is the one sentence that is very important to get everybody to remember.
If I take each government department, say Agriculture and Agri-Food, I can find a resonating example. I had dinner with Claire Dansereau yesterday, the deputy minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and I can find one resonating example for her. As for Environment Canada, it's clear what I feel the resonating example is with Environment Canada.
I'll be frank. There are a lot of talking heads on TV talking about climate change. I have been involved in climate change since the 1980s. I used to fly over the pole making measurements of ozone. I think it's very important for space to bring the data to the leadership of the country so that the leadership has the right data on which to make policy decisions about climate change. We are positioned to do that. It does require investment, though.
I told myself I wouldn't do this, but I'm going to do it. Our budget is 40% of what it was in 1996, yet we're still effective. I'm not going to do this again, but it takes investment to do this. We are effective in the sense that with our partners here, we have the best optical equipment to measure climate change in the world.