Industry committee  It has no impact at all, except that it can make it easier in the future. So if Canada wants to contribute, and I hope it will, to the next space exploration program in the United States and it wants to contribute a particular piece of hardware, it can contract for it from us or from anybody else in the world and contribute and get all those benefits.

Industry committee  Okay. What this transaction does is provide our existing Canadian company, with its Canadian facilities and Canadian employees and Canadian management, access to the key jobs in the United States, the next generation of space exploration and the next generation of remote sensing.

Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes. You license us to operate the satellite according to the Canadian government rules.

Industry committee  Yes. There are three things here. We have a contract with the Canadian Space Agency to deliver imagery. It's a straightforward contract that's been honoured. We have a licence from the Canadian government to a Canadian entity, irrespective of who owns it, to operate the satellite according to Canadian law, and that continues.

Industry committee  Here in Canada, absolutely. And that will be a requirement of the contract. If you read the RFP, the enlightened situation here in the government has been that they want the work done in Canada by Canadians. That's what's important and that's what other countries have copied ever since.

Industry committee  Both.

Industry committee  No. We have the right to market data internationally according to Canadian government rules of who has priority and everything else, and our international customers are comfortable with that, including the U.S. government. They know Canada comes first, and so on. And they still have use for that data.

Industry committee  Absolutely. The minister has shutter control. He can close the shutter of the satellite.

Industry committee  Yes, and the Canadian citizens who are in a Canadian government facility cannot violate that.

Industry committee  Not to my knowledge. I don't know what the government has agreed to. I am sure the government didn't put up a satellite without talking to the United States. You have to ask the government what they'd do. But from our perspective, we follow what the Canadian government tells us to do.

Industry committee  I don't know what you mean by U.S. security laws.

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  Yes, it would be a subsidiary of an American company.