Second Employee Leaves Job Over Sale Of Space Contractor

Posted on Friday, January 25 at 12:28 by rearguard
"When questions were asked, the stock answer was the spacecraft is for commercial purposes, it's civilian, it'll be used for Arctic surveillance. That was it," Williams said. He said he believes the spacecraft will be used to support American military operations. Full story here http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/01/23/mda-quit.html Related Sale of Canada's leading satellite developer not ethical: engineer http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/01/16/bc-satelliterdeveloper.html Sale of MDA units leaves Canada's space ambitions in the air: Garneau http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/01/11/tech-mda-space.html MDA selling Canadarm business to U.S. firm http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/01/08/mdasale.html

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  1. Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:25 am
    Unfortunately, two resignations won't be even close enough to send a clear message. Apparently being a party to building death traps and handing over critical Canadian assets to war mongers is nothing compared to the prospect of losing ones house and two SUV's.

  2. by RPW
    Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:12 pm
    Our esteemed (though short-statured) Natural Resources Minister, Gary Lunn, was pretty quick to haul out the threat of "25,000,000 people risking death" when Linda Keen shut down the reactor at Chaulk River.<br />
    <br />
    But there's nary a word coming out of Ottawa the millions more deaths here, never mind the FACT that Canada has signed onto the landmine treay:<br />
    <a href="http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=5156f2e6-2801-4178-aa26-408922ef0243&k=16208">http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=5156f2e6-2801-4178-aa26-408922ef0243&k=16208</a><br />
    "The union called on the Harper government to block the sale based on the treaty's provisions, which Hargrove said bans the transfer of public money into a company producing landmines.<br />
    <br />
    MDA developed the Canadarm with the support of taxpayer money, the CAW said."<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
    -Max Planck<br />
    <br />



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