Sylvain Laporte, the new president of the Canadian Space Agency, was just appointed back in April. He's there for a five-year term. This was the principal driving force—there were a couple of them, actually—for the Emerson reports on space policy. Within CSA he is working with the private sector, the aerospace and space industries associations, to ensure they are fully involved in CSA's planning, because it doesn't do a great deal of good, for example, to be partnered with the 30-metre telescope unless you're funded. In this year's budget, there's a $243 million investment by the Government of Canada over the coming 10 years. We want to ensure that there will be some reciprocity for that kind of investment for a globally critical piece of scientific infrastructure. So Canadian firms will be getting the lion's share of that money coming back to Canada in foreign investment. CSA has an entire division within their shop devoted to partnering with industry to make sure that they see economic benefit from our legacy space budgets.
On May 26th, 2015. See this statement in context.