voice in.”

The group represents companies small and large, including MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, builder of the Canadarm.

Boucher said his group is trying to push for the plan to be available by the end of 2016.

While the government released a space policy framework in February 2014, Boucher noted it doesn’t provide any details or an actual plan of what Canada will do over the next five or 10 years.

Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space, presented a strategy in 2003 during his four-year tenure as president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Garneau, who is seeking re-election as a Liberal MP in a Montreal riding, said the Conservative policy framework contained “absolutely nothing new and informative.”

He also noted that Steve MacLean, another astronaut and former CSA head, developed a long-termdry, flipped it over and several days of intense labor brought the old Woody back to life.

"Half-a-Boat" served me well for two seasons, after which I parked it in favor of a new aluminum model. That was in 1974 and she is still at the dock, well beyond any redemption, with just the bow plate poking from the tundra.

The aluminum skiff still serves me. It has been up and down the Yukon River five times and spent a couple of years running around Prince William Sound. It has carried everything from polar bears to peregrine falcons. Well over a million pounds of salmon have crossed her gunwales.

The majority of the wood skiffs that fished in Bristol Bay were Seymour skiffs, made in Seattle expressly for the Bay setnet