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Ottawa investing $200-million in Nova Scotia spaceport to enable sovereign satellite launches
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
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This is actually really important. The dollar figure is not the important part, but the signals of both confidence and ambition are going to be heard, by the groups already in the field, by small business, by investors and industries, even by other countries. This shows vision that has been lacking in Canada for decades and it's a vision that I think many people will be able to get onboard with, if we can overcome the trust issues that come from the fact that so often things like this end up getting sabotaged and burned.
This is a strategic investment, and while it's small by national standards, it both consists of and requires strategy. We have to acknowledge we are starting from behind, and we are probably not going to be a real leader in this field anytime soon, but instead of admitting defeat and laying down in submission and supplication to the existing leaders, we are saying that we are going to join the race ourselves and participate anyway, maybe we'll find a niche we can succeed in and maybe we'll continue to fall behind but at least we can say we are trying, as long as we continue trying and don't just throw away the whole investment and everyone involved in it under the bus in 5 or 10 or 20 years and completely give up again until next time we decide to wastefully start over from scratch. Where this is really going to succeed or fail is if we continue supporting it into growth, even when it gets hard to justify, or if we just forget about it in a few years and let it die.
Don't listen to and give airtime to the people who will inevitably tell you that it's a waste of money, it's learning and self-improvement and development and that is never a waste. And the other maybe is that, over time, maybe we can start steadily making up ground and gradually eroding the lead that others have, and trying to do that is absolutely the right decision. Existence is an endurance race not a sprint and none of us know what the future holds besides the fact that whatever it does hold, we want to be a part of it.