Because of the dual-use nature of all of these systems, because civilians are impacted when a dual-use system is targeted, we have to think about what the impacts on civilians are.
In many conflict situations, women and girls are already, for example, denied access to school, so their only access to schooling might be through having access to the Internet. They might lose absolute communications with each other as family units during the conflict situation. They might lose access to navigate to sources of water, for example. In cases where women and girls are being physically targeted with gender-based violence and sexual violence, earth observation satellites can help to gather timely, real-time evidence and information that would then aid Canadian troops to intervene.
It's both about how they're impacted negatively and also about how we can use space systems to positively ensure that Canada is implementing what its obligations are under its national action plan for the women, peace and security agenda. Canada is the first country to have explicitly included space in that national action plan, which I think is outstanding.
I think—