Regulation of Space Activities in Canada
- Paper number
IAC-05-E6.3.10
- Author
Prof. Ram S. Jakhu, McGill University, Canada
- Year
2005
- Abstract
Regulation of Space Activities in Canada by Dr. Ram Jakhu, Associate Professor Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University 3661 – Peel Street, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1X1 Tel: +1-514-398-1382; Fax: +1-514-398-2768; E-mail: ram.jakhu@mcgill.ca ABSTRACT: Though Canada was the third country in the world to launch a satellite, it is not a major space power. Canada’s space program, in a number of ways, is unique as it has primarily been designed to serve specific domestic needs of a country, which is the second largest in the world, in geographical terms and has a population of only about 32 millions inhabiting in a horizontal corridor of 200 kilometers in width along the US border. Similarly, the space regulatory regime Canada has developed is unique in the world. Federal government has jurisdiction over all space matters and has essentially been adapting its existing laws, with a minor exception, in order to regulate Canadian space activities as they have been developing over a period of four decades. This paper describes several Canadian laws and regulations, particularly those that relate to space research and development, launch activities, satellite telecommunications, human space flight, remote sensing from space and military uses of outer space. At the end of this paper, an analysis is made in order to determine if the Canadian space regulatory regime could serve as a model for other States, particularly those that have limited space activities.
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