Retention and retraining of people happens because there's a demand for your services or your products, and that comes from being competitive in the marketplace and that comes from from having clients who buy those services and products. I think Ms. Cianfarani made her point quite clearly that cheap stimulus means buying the services. Rick Whittaker referred to it in his reference to the U.S. government; they have a lot of programs they call OTA programs, “other transaction authorities”, whereby non-traditional defence companies can get access. We are actually pursuing one in the United States. NorthStar is pursuing an OTA transaction through a public-private partnership with the U.S. Space Force to deliver the types of services I talked about today. I don't have a similar mechanism here in Canada, and that's frustrating, because I'm competing with U.S. people who want to be able to do what NorthStar can do. We need to keep a sustainable advantage; you can't just innovate without selling the services.
On March 25th, 2021. See this statement in context.