There are 70 earth observation satellites up there right now. Canada has four of them. In ten years there will be somewhere around 280--more than 250--and those are the ones that are on the books right now.
Canada is a country of choice for downlinking, and that's because we are the country that is the furthest north, much further north than Russia. If we put three or four ground stations--and what I mean by ground stations is for telemetry control and downlinking of these satellites--those countries would love to downlink with us. One of the ways it works is that the data they obtain over Canada will be given to Canada free of charge--if we provide that service. Now, it costs us to provide that service, but I think this is a smart thing to do.
You take that, and then you couple it with the fact that there's an international data policy where the level zero data is going to be free; then the Government of Canada would take the data from those 250 satellites, plus the ones we have--and there's a plan with what each country does--and give that to the mining industry, and then the value-added sector of the mining industry would turn it into application products that suit and serve their needs. That's how I see that happening.
There are issues along the way on a data policy. You have to have everything on the same georeference. It is not right now. So it has to be redone, and that's something we need to clean up, which I believe Alberta, the data centre, is involved in. But this is something that will change how we get space data to the mining and exploration companies.