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Canada giving Ukraine satellite data despite its own ‘critical shortage’


The Conservative government says providing Ukraine with satellite imagery won’t have any adverse effects even though government documents show Canada is facing a critical shortage when it comes to acquiring such surveillance data for its own use.
The government received a request from Ukraine last year for imagery from Canada’s Radarsat-2 satellite and in February Defence Minister Jason Kenney announced that would be provided.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May questioned whether the Canadian Forces or other federal departments had raised concerns about sharing such information with Ukraine’s military.
The response from the Conservative government, recently provided to the Commons in the form of …read more

Source: Ottawa Citizen

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