The Liberal Party recently put out a media release taking credit for RADARSAT-2. [url=http://www.liberal.ca/story_13436_e.aspx]http://www.liberal.ca/story_134...
Of course, no mention of how the US military will likely use RADARSAT-2 in every upcoming war.
The Liberals turn the privatisation scandal on its head. Instead of saying, hey we took a billion from taxpayersto make ther RADARSAT system and then gave it away for a dollar to MDA (Where David Emerson used to be on the Board), they said this:
"The operation of the satellite will be the responsibility of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) who will cover the annual $15 million operating costs while providing Canadian government departments with free access to satellite data."
"Free access"? The Canadian government paid for about 90% of this system!!
How nice of the comapny to let the government use "its" satellite!!
When NDP and BQ MPs tried to get permission to peak at the secret contracts that gave away RADARSAT to MDA, the Liberal and Conservative MPs on the the Parliamentary Cttee. blocked their effort.
They did not want to even see the contracts!
Many more details on that here:
[url=http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/58/58.html]http://coat.ncf.ca/our_...