Feds confirm decision to reject space deal
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I would have figured this was a good thing for Canadians, not raping us.... heck if we sold this company to the US, then we'd be raped even worse.... with a golf club.... and we'd be more dependant on the US for our own security which is currently in our control at the moment with the mentioned technology not going into their hands.
Praxius
You're probably too young to remember the Avro Arow but one way or another technology produced in Canada will ultimately find its way into America's arsenal. I can't say for certain as of this moment how many Canadians are working in the American space programme, but there was a time when the best engineers and many highly skilled Canadians were working for NASA and manned the consoles at Houston and worked all over the place in the American aerospace industry. If I remember correctly didn't there used-to-be a "Canada-Arm on the space station?
As far as "security" is concerned to believe that Canada with its bloated military and super-efficient RCMP ....to say nothing of CSIS and the Newfounland Constabulary..... need anyone's help with the longest border in the world....well.....
You're probably too young to remember the Avro Arow but one way or another technology produced in Canada will ultimately find its way into America's arsenal. I can't say for certain as of this moment how many Canadians are working in the American space programme, but there was a time when the best engineers and many highly skilled Canadians were working for NASA and manned the consoles at Houston and worked all over the place in the American aerospace industry. If I remember correctly didn't there used-to-be a "Canada-Arm on the space station?
As far as "security" is concerned to believe that Canada with its bloated military and super-efficient RCMP ....to say nothing of CSIS and the Newfounland Constabulary..... need anyone's help with the longest border in the world....well.....
I've read up a lot on the Arrow, heck I even seen the movie, lol.... that sorta pissed me off a little, but the Arrow never made it into the US's hands.... heck it didn't even stay in our own... the Arrow was scrapped for those stupid missles.... all records and the prototypes were destroyed for the most part.
But in regards to the above situation, it's not about Canadian technology going to the US, both countries trade this stuff all the time.... the concern is selling them the technology and control of that technology we are currently using for our country's security.... which would mean they can use that technology to monitor our nation and pretty well anywhere else they would please.
Selling them another Sat for them to use I'm not too fussed about, but when it's selling them something we are actually using just doesn't make sense.
And you mentioned the raping of Canadians.... well if this was sold to the US, then the tax payer's money that went into the projects would have been the rape.
But in regards to the above situation, it's not about Canadian technology going to the US, both countries trade this stuff all the time.... the concern is selling them the technology and control of that technology we are currently using for our country's security.... which would mean they can use that technology to monitor our nation and pretty well anywhere else they would please.
Selling them another Sat for them to use I'm not too fussed about, but when it's selling them something we are actually using just doesn't make sense.
And you mentioned the raping of Canadians.... well if this was sold to the US, then the tax payer's money that went into the projects would have been the rape.
Prax
Do you honestly believe that the Americans don't have satellite technology watching Canada at this very moment? Is it reasonable to suggest that everything from water distribution networks and "control" of the Arctic ice-pack...to who's growing dope and where....isn't being watched by Big Brother?
Our government spent billions of dollars on British submarines ...mothballed antiques....instead of opening shipyards that could have employed lots of Canadians....
Our government participates in looting minerals from all over the world....while Canadians are paying for gasoline refined from Alberta's oil and sold back to us at prices established by American petroleum companies and American investors artificially inflating the price of gasoline and making ENORMOUS profits....
Want to talk about how Canada is being raped by our government....?
Do you honestly believe that the Americans don't have satellite technology watching Canada at this very moment? Is it reasonable to suggest that everything from water distribution networks and "control" of the Arctic ice-pack...to who's growing dope and where....isn't being watched by Big Brother?
Our government spent billions of dollars on British submarines ...mothballed antiques....instead of opening shipyards that could have employed lots of Canadians....
Our government participates in looting minerals from all over the world....while Canadians are paying for gasoline refined from Alberta's oil and sold back to us at prices established by American petroleum companies and American investors artificially inflating the price of gasoline and making ENORMOUS profits....
Want to talk about how Canada is being raped by our government....?
God damn it...my old man worked for Avro as a mechanic..... sumbitch lied to me about what he saw in those crates headin for the u.s. and Britain.
You are not reading what I am typing. I am aware they have satelites that can monitor pretty well anywhere they please... I was talking about the control of one of the few we actually have... plus the unique technology within this paticular sat that was what caused this big stink to begin with.
True, but also in the government's defense, they just awarded contract to both BC and NS to upgrade our ships.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2008/04/21/shipyards-contracts.html?ref=rss
"Ottawa expects the Victoria contract to create as many as 110 local jobs, while helping to maintain 450 more. At its peak in 2012, the Halifax contract is expected to maintain and create as many as 600 jobs. The contracts run until 2020."
Nobody said things were pefect... if they were we wouldn't have anything to bitch about.
(I think that'll be my new sig)