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U.S. may have access to Canadian satellite<br /> Grits refuse to let MPs view confidential documents <br /> Dan Lett and Paul Samyn <br /> March 08, 2005 <br /> Winnipeg Free Press, A1 <br /> <br /> Ottawa may have given the United States carte blanche to commandeer a sophisticated Canadian satellite for military offensives and intelligence gathering - even if those actions run contrary to Canadian foreign policy, opposition MPs and international legal experts have charged. The Liberal government has so far refused to allow MPs on the House of Commons standing committee on foreign affairs and international trade to view a confidential annex attached to a 2000 treaty between Canada and the United States which details U.S. access to Radarsat-2, a privately owned satellite to be launched later this year under license by Canada.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/collateral/common/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&pageName=inTheNews&contentID=411§ion=Information&subSection=In%20the%20News">Full Story</a><br /> <br />

[Dr Caleb]

Very disturbing. The US has also disallowed the private company 'Ikonos' from selling the 1m resolution images it usually produces from private contracts without permission of Homeland security.<br /> <br /> Now, presumabally they will diallow public use of radarsat images without DHS permission . .. <br />