"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.
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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 />
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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 />
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