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The citizen fact-checkers on the above spaceport, report this: The harsh reality of Spaceport Nova Scotia and Maritime Launch Services ($MAXQ/$MAXQF) is that this is yet another classic case of Canadian industrial policy chasing a dream in a brutally competitive global space sector — with taxpayers fronting most of the risk while private shareholders (and insiders) pocket any upside if things somehow work out. Here's the unvarnished breakdown as of mid-March 2026: - Still zero orbital launches, years behind schedule — The company has managed two suborbital demos (university/student-level in 2025, T-Minus Barracuda in Nov 2025), with more small Barracuda flights planned for May/June and late 2026. Orbital? The original "first in 2026" target has quietly slipped — now eyeing 2027 at best, per CEO statements and local reports. No hardware has flown to orbit from Canadian soil yet, despite a decade+ of hype starting around 2014–2015. - Business model is subsidy-dependent theater — It's an "airport for rockets" leasing pads/infrastructure. Revenue? Almost none historically — filings show ongoing net losses (millions annually), negative equity in stretches, tiny cash on hand vs. liabilities. The $200M DND lease (~$20M/year over 10 years) is the lifeline: government as anchor tenant guaranteeing cash flow to finish pads and ops. Without it, the project likely stalls or folds like past failed Canadian space ventures (e.g., early 2000s attempts or even echoes of Spar Aerospace's subsidy-fueled decline). Parallel supports (CITC tax credits up to ~$30M+, SIF ~$13M conditional, EDC $10M credit) are reimbursements/grants — non-repayable if milestones hit, but no public equity, royalties, or dividends back to taxpayers. - Private upside, public downside — MDA's $10M equity stake (Nov 2025) got board rights and validation; Reaction Dynamics invested as customer-partner. Stock has mooned on news bursts (1,000%+ in bursts over 1–2 years, trading ~$0.30–$0.45 range recently), rewarding speculators and early backers. But dilution has been brutal (massive share issuances from debt conversions, low-price raises). If orbital cadence never materializes (e.g., users stick with SpaceX rideshares, Rocket Lab, or emerging competitors), the site becomes an expensive, underused rural pad — taxpayers eat tens/hundreds of millions in sunk grants/loans/lease payments for "sovereignty" and a few dozen jobs in Guysborough. - Local and expert skepticism persists — Community opposition (since 2019) flags environmental risks (wetlands, noise, potential fuel spills/debris from failures), proximity to fishing/tourism, and "snake-oil" promises. Forums like NASA Spaceflight have called it undercapitalized, debt-heavy, and hype-driven. Even neutral reports note chronic delays (permitting, suppliers, funding). Broader Canadian space efforts (e.g., NordSpace delays, other provincial pushes) show the same pattern: big talk, slow walk, heavy public money. - Geopolitical/national-security fig leaf — The DND deal sells "sovereign access" amid Arctic threats and U.S. reliance fears. Fine in theory — but Canada could buy rides on U.S./allied launches far cheaper/reliably. This feels more like rural economic development pork + defense optics than a viable commercial play. If launches stay low-cadence (defense isn't high-volume), ROI stays negative. Bottom line: This isn't failing spectacularly tomorrow — momentum from the lease, LOIs (e.g., INNOSPACE March 2026 for HANBIT hosting), hires, and suborbital progress keeps it limping forward. But the model is weak, execution slow, market crowded, and taxpayer exposure high with zero direct return mechanism. History is littered with similar subsidy-chasing space infrastructure plays that underdeliver or pivot quietly while costs mount. If orbital doesn't ramp meaningfully by 2028–2030, expect "strategic success" spin while the public quietly absorbs another boondoggle. Harsh? Yes. Realistic? Absolutely. (or more likely, a very expensive pad gathering moss.)

Here's another $200 million grift to "guarantee our sovereign access to space". Ottawa puts $200M into space launch pad in Nova Scotia | CBC News First of all, this company, Maritime Launch Services, has been trying to get this off the ground for 10 years. They received $10 million last Oct. Export Development Canada gives $10 million credit to Maritime Launch Services, will the public wind up on the hook? - Halifax Examiner Yet, according to Stephen Matier, president and CEO of Maritime Launch Services, this largesse from EDC “marks another major step forward for Maritime Launch and Canada’s growing commercial space sector.” One might ask what previous “major steps” were. The original environmental approval back in 2019 for a private space launch site for Ukrainian rockets (that don’t exist and probably never will), and a maximum of eight launches a year, which was to have been built that year with its first launch in 2021? The construction of a small concrete pad and a gravel road to the site? The launch of a student rocket, part of which went missing? In the past nine years, since MLS CEO Stephen Matier first showed up in Nova Scotia from New Mexico, U.S. with his big plans to launch Ukrainian-made rockets from Canso (which have since then been ditched), Geddes and others in the community have expended enormous amounts of their own time and energy doing crucial research into the company, its plans, its finances, and its credibility. Concerned citizens have spent countless hours of their own time poring over freedom of information documents, and questioning credulous governments that heap praise and promises of public dollars on MLS, ignoring all the red flags that concerned citizens uncover.

You'll be on the losing side soon, too. We all will be. Your posts are like everybody watching in horror as an entire neighbourhood burns to the ground and you're the arsonist cheering and celebrating it.

I actually posted what has been achieved in all these "trade deals" on the previous page of this thread. I see you did not read it. There was a long-term trade deal with India for uranium for $2.6 billion. Over 9 years. And there was an "agreement" to increase our trade with India to $70 billion by 2030. The agreement was called CEPA and it has not been ratified. The $100 million was for up to 200 full scholarships for Indian students in Canada. It covers tuition, living expenses and research stipends.

Carney sends his entourage back home, then remains in the UK, as a big Brookfield merger is signed just down the street. Everywhere he goes, Brookfield gets a major contract.

You really need to watch committee meetings. $3 million tax dollars to provide kits so people can shove hard drugs up their butt. Seriously, Liberals? WTF is the matter with you?

No one is concerned that Carney just appointed a criminal who was previously used by the Liberal government to fabricate evidence against Canadian citizens to their online safety committee, after passing 4 censorship bills. Why am I not surprised? Very China. Much North Korea.

I hadn't had a cat around since my kids were little until a year ago. I had always considered myself a dog person. But early last summer, I was driving to Canadian Tire and saw 2 kids swinging something around by a rope. Took me a minute to realize it was a little gray kitten. I drove around the block and came up behind them and jumped out of the car. "What the hell are you doing??Where's your mom??" I confiscated the cat, it was panting and screaming. I always carry a pocketknife, so I cut the rope off and drove it home. Then I realized, "Oh, sh!t. Now what do I do?" I didn't know what to call her at first and she was very hissy with me at the start "Aren't you a hissy little missy?" Anyways, I got her spayed and figured I was now into her for $250 so......now I have a cat named Missy. She has Scarlet O'Hara syndrome with food - "As God is my witness, I shall never go hungry again!" and eats me out of house & home and now I think maybe I am a cat person, too.

Looks like Japan has rejected Carney's costly "carbon neutral" oil & gas and his MOU piece of paper. They just signed $56 billion energy deal with the US. Japan Signs a $56 Billion Energy Deal with the US: Boosting Ties Amid Global Uncertainty - Energy News Beat Japan just elected a conservative leader who doesn't buy into the Net Zero agenda. I'm telling you - the tyranny of the Net Zero/Green Billionaires is ending all over the world. Canada is the last to wake up. It's the only place left that Carney can squeeze out the last of the Net Zero dollars.

You can post all the data and stats out there. Liberal supporters don't care about women and children.

You must be lying. The Liberals say we have zero IT people in Canada.

If only we had a way of fast-tracking the project.......

Cryfest? The Liberal party turned Canada into a flaming dumpster fire of dysfunction and they're still doing it. You don't think Canadians should be allowed to express any dislike or frustration or disagreement with that? I bet you're 100% behind the 4 new censorship laws. Typical.

RCMP intelligence reports, obtained via freedom of information requests and highlighted in our previous coverage, paint Farber as a problematic figure. In assessments related to groups like Diagolon and the Freedom Convoy, the RCMP described Farber as an “inflammatory, politically motivated operative” who “makes negative or inflammatory comments about political candidates to the right of the Liberal Party.” They viewed him as an “agent provocateur” who “inflates the truth, alters public perception, and manipulates Canadian law enforcement.” The reports expressed concern over his “influence over policing,” noting how CAHN shapes law enforcement targeting through training and consultations. Farber has been accused of misinformation, such as falsely linking an antisemitic flyer to the Convoy.

We still suffer from him, though.

Canada and Norway strengthen defence cooperation in space - Canada.ca Neither country is capable of reaching space or has military assets in space. But we have another of Carney's famous "letters of intent". I'm sure Beijing and Moscow will be reeling...........in laughter.

Carney has convened an "Online Safety Advisory Panel". To go along with all his censorship bills. Government of Canada reconvenes the expert advisory group on online safety - Canada.ca One of the "expert advisors" on the panel is Bernie Farber. Bernie Farber is the co-founder of the Canadian Anti Hate Network, recently resigning as Chair. A few things you should know about the CAHN and Bernie Farber: 1. In 2022, the CAHN lost a defamation case in Ontario, in which they assisted Antifa. Ontario school board paid co-founder of group later linked to Antifa in court $39K 2. CAHN was used by the Liberal government to feed misinformation to the media about the Freedom Convoy and many believe they were behind the random Nazi flag spotted at the protest. Farber concocted "evidence" against protesters by claiming anti-semitic flyers circulated in Miami 2 weeks prior were being distributed at the Convoy. Farber was frequently called out on it by journalists who were NOT the CBC. So Bernie Farber will be fabricating evidence against Canadians, who will be jailed, UK style, under Canada's 4 new censorship bills, with no warrants, no judicial oversight. Carney is setting things up to deal with dissenters of whatever he's going to do to Canada next.

Carney's 26 trips to diversify trade, laid out in one place. Mark Carney’s 26 trips abroad: A breakdown of the prime minister’s trade deals and travel after 1 year in office - The Hub Despite the majority of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 26 trips to foreign focusing on diversifying trade, no major expansive trade deals have yet been signed. “Only one new trade agreement has formally been signed, [with Indonesia], and it has not yet actually been ratified yet.” Steinberg also pointed to reductions in Chinese agricultural tariffs, but noted that this only brings us back to the 2024 status quo, rather than adding net-new export destinations. While Steinberg believes Carney is on the right track with signing new trade deals, he says it’s too early to celebrate. He adds that trade with the U.S. should still be Canada’s primary focus. “I applaud the ongoing discussions with other trade partners, especially India, where I see great long-term potential, but most of these discussions have yet to actually reduce any trade barriers,” Steinberg explained. “Carney’s primary focus should be on renegotiating CUSMA, or at least keeping it alive until President Trump leaves office. Losing CUSMA would hurt our economy more than any potential trade agreements with other countries could possibly help it.” While laudable, the economics professor sees diversifying the bulk of Canada’s trade elsewhere outside of the States to be a foolhardy exercise.

China just slapped 13.8% tariffs on Canada's butyl rubber products. We make these in conjunction with Japan, who just got slapped with 30% tariffs on the same products. This is our preferred "strategic partner" because they are so reliable and stable. 🙄 If it was the US doing this, you would have heard about it on CBC, but it's China, so you won't hear about it.

The federal government has until close of business today to apply to the Supreme Court of Canada to appeal the decision upholding Justice Mosley's ruling that the Emergency Act's invocation was illegal. If they don't file today, the decision stands.

Pretty telling that MH's main concern with Muslims is whether they have the proper amount of fear of climate change. 🙄 Myself, reflecting on the increase in rapes in the hundreds of %, in countries with large immigration from Muslim countries and the Rotherham rape grooming gangs in the Uk, I would screen for their views on women and whether 9 yr old girls should be available for marriage. I will never understand the radical left's values. Or rather, lack of them.

I don't understand it. Liberal supporters have been pooping their pants over Trump invading Canada, and here we are, poking the bear, by welcoming the Iranian mullahs into Canada. This is like welcoming all the junkies to set up camp in your front yard and then acting shocked when your neighbours call the police to boot them all out.

Excuse me? Literally everyone, including political parties, who have said we need to screen for values have been called racist by the entire left.