Also, more seats per capita than Alberta.

It will keep the lights on a bit longer and allow, perhaps, a bit of rebar and concrete work. But you are correct that this grant smacks more than a bit of a contingent response to cup-rattling mendicancy. A pity, really. Maritime Launch Services was a decent idea starting out. But it has been snake-bitten – perhaps eventually fatally – by the Russo-Ukraine War.

Blair Ivey,

A business case might still be made if a deal can be struck with one or more of the new small launcher outfits. The original target vehicle was a Zenit successor. All of the new vehicles of that class or larger, though, already have launch sites elsewhere.