Every October, Space Week offers Canadians a moment to pause, gaze upward and celebrate Canada’s contributions to space. Space Week is also a time to ask what role our country will play in humanity’s next frontier. For us, it is a clarion call. Canada must act with urgency, vision and purpose to seize the opportunities stemming from the growing global space sector and cement its leadership in space.

Canada’s space sector is not a niche science project. It is already a meaningful contributor to our economy and society directly and indirectly, employing more than 25,000 people — many of whom are in STEM — and adding roughly $3.2 billion to Canada’s GDP, with further multiplier effects across the broader economy .

This is just the beginning of what is possible. There are projec

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