Sale of Canadarm maker threatens Arctic sovereignty

March 24, 2008 D. H. McKee

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Why do we even bother having astronauts when we don’t even listen to what they have to say about our presence in space?
globeandmail.com: Sale of Canadarm maker to U.S. company threatens Arctic sovereignty, Garneau says

“The Prime Minister talks about sovereignty – use it or lose it. And yet we have a tool that is excellent for Arctic surveillance, monitoring of our internal waters that are contested by the Americans and other countries, and now we’re going to sell this asset to an American company,” Mr. Leblanc said.
“The American government takes sovereignty very seriously, and when it’s in their national interest to cut off access to information, they do it. So even though the company that’s buying the system has pledged to continue to provide data from the satellite, if it was not in the national interest of the U.S. to provide that information at some point, you can bet a month’s salary it won’t be provided.”

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