Industry committee  Telesat is strictly, at the moment, operating communication satellites, so it doesn't get into the earth observation side of things.

Industry committee  That was part of its mandate, or one of its responsibilities. However, you are talking about challenges confronting the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Certain obstacles are virtually insurmountable: existing regulations, in particular ITAR regulations, and

Industry committee  If we were to go ahead with the Constellation, which MDA is completely capable of building--they came up with the concept; and if we were to go ahead with the ExoMars project, for which they persuaded the Europeans to allow us to build the rover that would go on this European mis

Industry committee  Yes, certainly. It's a little hard, when you're remote, to give the right signals, but I believe MDA would bring forward the following arguments. I believe they would say it was a good business decision for the shareholder, and I agree with that. It was also necessary because it

Industry committee  No, certainly not. Our mandate was to promote the aerospace industry [Editor's note: technical difficulties].