Should Canada have its own space-launch facility?

Yes... yes it should.

Concur. There was talk of this years ago, that the CSA wanted to have a launch facility built on Cape Breton island.

-J.

I think the writer had a blonde moment. Independant launch capability is something we should have had decades ago.

Yup...

If it's private then fine. We have other priorities as a country.

Sure we should, then we'd have another method of deporting unwanted or illegal immigrants rather than the age old, planes, trains and automobiles.

FYI, our priorities are kinda knackered.

Set it up in Vancouver..

The Government should get involved. Look at Russia they just launched that telescope, and are how we and the US are getting into space now that the shuttle program is over. We should be launching and developing our own spacecraft. It would create jobs to.

I thought you have

Aren't we at too high a latitude for a commercially viable launch facility?

Canada does, or did, have launch capacity in the 50s, 60s at Churchill, where they use to launch thousands of sub orbitals to study the upper atmosphere and the magnetic field. It's interesting that in the 1950s, Canada was a world leader in aerospace R&D. It was the third country in the world to design and launch a satellite, albeit from Vandenberg AFB,. It created what was to become the white elephant we still lament and get teary eyed over, the Avro Arrow. And, it was the first nation in the world, in 1972, to launch a commercial system, the Anik A1, again using American facilities at Cape canaveral....to inflict CBC on the poor people who thought they were safe living up north.

Would be a nice goal to set. Definetly should have one.