Industry committee  Only the Canadian government gives export permit approval for that technology. I don't see why they would.

Industry committee  My understanding, as president of the company, is that if I did that, it would be breaking the law. Therefore, we haven't done it and we won't do it.

Industry committee  The Canadian government got an excellent deal, negotiated a very tough deal, ran a very tough competition. We won, hands down. You cannot buy that data for less money than we're giving it to you for. You cannot buy it anywhere in the world.

Industry committee  The government wants to do it over seven years. They could do it over one year if they wanted to, but that wouldn't be very efficient.

Industry committee  That's only if we export the data to the U.S. government.

Industry committee  I can't see how the Americans could do that.

Industry committee  No. We have just informed the government of what's happening and changed the owner category. It's in the review.

Industry committee  I'm not into the technical terms, but we are informing the government of what's happening, and that presumably affects the agreement. That's amendment number nine--whatever comes out of this process.

Industry committee  I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it, the same company that today has the licence to operate the satellite--an MDA-owned company--will still have the licence to operate the satellite. But the parent company is going to be a different parent company. That's what's being amended in the amendment.

Industry committee  I don't know, but I can't imagine why they'd do it.

Industry committee  Only if the government wanted to do so.

Industry committee  The government owns the licence, so it can license anybody today.

Industry committee  Orbital was before.

Industry committee  There's a certain level of classification that can only be done in the U.S., as there is in Canada.

Industry committee  We couldn't get a contract in Canada that had a classified piece. The classified piece would have to be stripped off first--we've done this already--and the non-classified piece can be contracted back to Canada.