Canada has always liked to tell itself a flattering story about space. We built the Canadarm. We have serious engineers. We have respected astronauts. We punch above our weight. All true.
But there has always been one glaring omission in the national mythology: Canada still cannot launch its own payloads into orbit from Canadian soil. Even now, despite all the lofty rhetoric, we have had to rely on other countries actually to get the job done.
