Topic: Private Sector Access to Outer Space
Country: Canada
Delegate Name: Cameron Grogan
School: East Grand Rapids High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Canada position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
The great country of Canada believes firmly that only few countries should have access to the private sector to outer space. Canada can simply just not trust some foreign countries to go into space for they are not politically or economically stable enough. We believe it would be best for only 10 countries with a guarantee of the a country from six out of the seven continents.
Canada has a strong economically sound and prosperous space program named the Canadian Space Agency, the CSA. We have a prominent annual budget of $300 million dollars a year and believe strongly that we are a key player in deciding the private sector access to outer space.We believe that allowing private corporations and companies should have access to outer space, however, we do think only economically sound countries with strong precautions should allow and take part in the private sector access to outer space, we do also believe our countries should work together to ensure that people within other countries would still receive equal opportunity to reach space if their country is not deemed fit. Canada believes for the continent of North America Canada should be the respected country to launch persons into space. The Continent of South America to launch shall be Brazil. The people of Africa shall look to Egypt for space launches. Asia should rely on Russia and also China. The Middle East will have no programs and need to look to Egypt. Europe should look toward Germany and Britain. This still leaves open three other countries to become launch countries to allow access to the private sector of outer space.
