@Franktmcveety

Liberals backdated the lease a whole year so the company got handed $20 million up front for the first year

The same company leases the same land from the province of Nova Scotia for $13,500 a year

Everything you need to know about the ‘spaceport’ in Nova Scotia

I write this from my home in Canso, Nova Scotia, less than three kilometres from Maritime Launch Services’ “launch pad.”

Little more than a concrete shed pad at the end of a gravel road with two sea cans, Maritime Launch’s “Spaceport Nova Scotia” was recently lavished $20 million a year for 10 years by our federal government to further develop its facility, and as it now boasts to investors — send rockets into space on “150+” launch days a year.

Seems legit.

Let’s start at the beginning with the company itself, an American-Ukrainian start up that called itself Maritime Launch Services, and registered with Nova Scotia Joint Stocks in October 2016. […]

A project of the Ukrainian Space Agency, MLS was created specifically to launch the Cyclone 4M, a rocket designed by Yuzhnoye, the Ukrainian agency’s design and business office.

Despite claims for years that they were “maturing the launch vehicle,” this rocket has never been built.

The Ukrainian Space Agency suffered a series of losses due to ongoing scandals, mismanagement, malfeasance and corruption Among them was a spectacularly failed 10-year project in Brazil, and allegations of deals with North Korea, a breach of contract case with Boeing that would cost them USD $200 million, and the theft of over $10 million from Export Development Canada funds provided in a deal with MDA, a scam that would span 2011-2017.

Despite this history, in 2017 the Government of Canada, including then President of the Canadian Space Agency, Sylvain LaPorte, signed an agreement to “co-operate in space.”

Read the whole thing.

@TraceyKent – It gets worse. Their entire FB page is promo shots of endless Liberal politicians and CGI pics of non-existent space travel