Steer: Space needs more Canada – but Canada needs a better approach to space

Recently, Canada announced a New Space Strategy, under the title “Exploration, Imagination, Innovation,” and the audience the government chose for the official launch was a group of kindergarten to grade six school children: our future astronauts and space engineers. A wonderful, creative move.
However, the attention given to the Junior Astronaut program may have been a distraction from the gaping holes in the strategy, which require more attention.
Space security is an important pie