Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Through you, we briefly touched on the mission of Artemis. We also spoke—and my colleague did speak—about Russia and China not being signatories to an accord. I would like to reflect on Canada being one of the signatories to the Artemis accords.
That was initiated by NASA regarding the exploration of space: “The principles set out in these Accords are intended to apply to civil space activities conducted by the civil space agencies of each [of the signatories].”
Section 11 specifically talks about “the deconfliction of space activities”. That section speaks primarily to this and states:
The Signatories commit to seek to refrain from any intentional actions that may create harmful interference with each other's use of outer space in their activities under these Accords.
I would like to hear from you in explaining the importance of the Artemis accords in ensuring that the space domain is more predictable and more secure.