CANADAS’ LEADING AEROSPACE FIRM TO SELL OUT TO AMERICANS
Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates has decided to sell off portions of its’ Canadian operations to the US firm, Alliant techsystems, a major arms manufacturer.
Candas’ federal government needs to prevent the sale of this company.
Last month the same company using Canadian government financing(yes..our taxes)launched into orbit a satelite called RADARSAT-2. The satellite is a specialized type that provides unique imagery details of thinning ice sheets in the north, and crops and flooding in the south. It could also be used to monitor and track shipping in Canadas’ north.
Canadian taxpayers paid $455 million of the total cost, or 85% of the total price for construction of the satellite.
The federal government was promised in the long term that they would be given priority access to the satellite, and that we would have access to large amounts of imagery files from the satellite.
After the sale of this portion of MDA, it is likely the US government will replace Canada as the “liscensing”authority over the satellite which will leave Canada without access to technology that we paid for and developed with tax dollars.
MDA will be paid approximately $1.2 billion for the satellite.
Maxime Bernier Canadas’ foreign minister does have the authority to block the sale of the technology to the USA.
Under the The 2005 Remote Sensing Space Systems Act, the deal requires the approval of the foreign minister who in making his decision “shall have regard for national security and the defence of Canada.”
This sale goes against both of those ideals. Step up, protect Canada and refuse this sale Mr Bernier. We bought the merchandise, with our tax dollars, and we deserve to keep it.
If anything, we should pay out the other 15% in developement costs to MDA and take physical control from them…keeping one more part of Canada…Canadian.
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Should be of no surprise that this is happening.
how do you make sense of life? I mean how do you see the world?