Transport committee  My colleague Michele spoke about this in answering the earlier question about us compared with Starlink. It really comes down to the direct-to-consumer model that Starlink and Amazon are using and the model that Telesat uses. It's what we've used for 50 years. We partner with a l

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will be launching satellites at the beginning of 2023. We will be in service in the northern latitudes by the end of 2023. Between those times, we'll be doing beta testing and working with our customers. We'll have full global service kind of mid-2024.

Transport committee  That's a great question. We are working with local partners in Canada, and the satellites themselves will be assembled, integrated and tested at a facility in Montreal. I should say that the constellation as a whole will be operated from here in Ottawa. We're going to be buildi

Transport committee  Unfortunately, Canada doesn't have a launch capability, but we are working with various launch providers. We've already announced one partnership with Blue Origin to launch some of our satellites. Stay tuned for some upcoming announcements.

Transport committee  Yes, absolutely. Telesat is scaling quite dramatically with this Lightspeed program and investing significantly in it. I should say that last year we hired about a hundred people. We're at only about 350 in Canada today. This year, we'll be hiring many more than that. The recen

Transport committee  Telesat competes in one of the most competitive and dynamic global industries. You see exactly that in who we are competing with. There is one question we get a lot: How will you compete? We've been doing this for over 50 years, and when we first started looking at low-earth orbi

Industry committee  Yes. Thanks, Dan. I'll just add quickly that the biggest obstacle and barrier to delivering affordable broadband to really remote and rural communities typically is the backhaul component or backbone. With satellite, we'll be able to deliver it at a much more affordable rate, w