There are lots of ways to get satellites in polar orbits.

Of course there are, but the customers are mostly not at the poles, so any times the satellites spend at the poles is wasted.

and also allow as a path to reinvigorate our domestic aerospace defence industry.

Avro Arrow centenary edition in 2059.

Do you mean Thiel?

Vance may be much smarter than Trump (low bar) and have actual plans for evil, vs. doing awful things on a whim. But, JD Vance doesn’t have Trump’s cult of personality. Whoever comes after Trump will return to the same normal relationship that a president has with their party. With the modern GOP that means intense squabbling and infighting. I doubt a president Vance could get much if his evil plan passed, even if the GOP did still control all the branches of government.

Geostationary satellites orbit at a height of 35,000 km. That means there’s a huge lag, making the satellites unsuitable for interactive Internet, and it also means they’re far away, so you need a big directional antenna to send data to them.

Starlink is awful, but you definitely don’t want geostationary satellites for Internet.

Neither are satellite orbits.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/llustration-of-two-X-Y-paths-with-different-X-component_fig5_347273912

Canada doesn’t need satellites, Canada needs fibre. Satellites are a terrible idea.

So, this is some kind of “model UN” thing?

Apparently Trump of the North Poilievre has been trying out “carbon tax Carney” as a nickname. And this despite Carney saying he’ll repeal the carbon tax. (Probably a good electoral move, despite the carbon tax being a good idea).

Anyhow, I don’t think a guy whose obvious nickname is “little PP” should be opening the door to the nickname game.

The Liberals and Conservatives aren’t going to do election reform. First past the post is a massive benefit to both of them.

Decriminalize C-42 41.1.

If Canada signed NAFTA and then USMCA to get unrestricted access to US markets, and part of the price was that Canada had to add obscene laws that made it illegal to fix your own farm equipment, then just drop the enforcement of those laws.

Make it so a Canadian can set up a shop where they remove the DRM from HP printers and let users use any ink they want. Let someone set up a kiosk in the mall where they jailbreak your phone so you don’t have to pay Apple 30% of every dollar you spend on your iphone. Then if some Canadian wants to sell an ad-blocker for your iPhone that Apple would never allow into the app store, let them do it.

It doesn’t even have to involve passing new copyright laws. Just treat anti-circumvention the way marijuana was treated about a decade ago: something that’s not yet legal, but that the justice system is no longer prosecuting.