The federal government has confirmed Canada is no longer providing the Ukrainian military access to satellite imagery used for high-resolution surveillance, which one expert says is a sign of a possible shift in Canada-Ukraine relations.
In 2015, the Harper government revealed it was sharing information from Canada’s RADARSAT-2 with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the fight against Russian-backed rebels, a decision it said it had made in December 2014.
The satellite, run by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) in Richmond, B.C., is used by Canada’s government and military for coastal and marine surveillance, and can scan the Earth day or night …read more
Source: National Newswatch
