Industry committee  In a long-term space plan, we would look at a full space economy and ensure that Canada was fuelling that economy. The elements include earth observation, space-based communication, new markets such as on-orbit servicing, space-based assembly, space manufacturing and, in about 10

Industry committee  Specifically, there are anchor programs that people could invest with now. If you take something such as MDA's next generation interceptor observation satellite, where the customer will become a buyer of that, there could be pre-buy of that capability like happened on RADARSAT-2.

Industry committee  Yes, that's true.

Industry committee  We are very advanced in the world in those technologies. MDA has been on four different low-earth orbit communications constellations so far and is talking to many other companies around the world to leverage our technology and advanced manufacturing capability for high-volume, l

Industry committee  There has not been a lot of formal discussion yet around the replacement for the north warning. You get that in casual conversations in the background. People obviously see that coming. There's certainly an opportunity there for ground-based technologies to sense over the north

Industry committee  Not that I've seen.

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  The key thing is to recognize that we have a strong space sector in Canada. The space sector is emerging and breaking out. The space sector shares a number of the supply chain participants with the aerospace sector, which means that with this rapidly taking off space economy, as

Industry committee  As I mentioned, right now in space we have a very strong current of growth. We're seeing the space economy grow from $380 billion to $400 billion a year today to over a trillion dollars in the next few years. Canada, as the third country into space back 60 years ago after the U.

Industry committee  Thank you for the opportunity to make a presentation to the committee today. As opposed to an association, I'm now speaking as a corporation, on behalf of MDA. MDA is a homegrown story of innovation and entrepreneurship. In 1969 University of British Columbia professor Dr. John

Finance committee  Yes, I do. The first thing is that the international community will need to see Canada make a full commitment to something like lunar gateway. I'm talking about the AI-based robotics on the new space station lunar gateway. That is one element of what you were talking about—the

Finance committee  The way we're working at the moment, Canada's contribution of artificial intelligence-based robotics on lunar gateway is the biggest bang for the buck. This is because of the positions it creates and the number of companies that are engaged. The last project, Canadarm, was around

Finance committee  The next two areas will be satellite communications and earth observation. Canada established itself as a leader in satellite communications in the 1960s. It was the first country to have a domestic communications satellite, the first country to have direct-to-home TV broadband

Finance committee  Yes. Your own consultant said that Canada is currently bleeding off the edge of a strategy that is over 20 years old. There is no doubt now.... When we started this in Canada, we were the third country in space and one of the six countries in the current space station, having our

Finance committee  That's already occurring. As a representative of Canada's largest space company, in terms of the corporation that I run, I'm already seeing us set up in other countries where there are greater space ambitions and budgets. We're very committed in Canada. We want to see it hold its