Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

In February 2001 he was appointed executive vice-president of the Canadian Space Agency and became its president on November 22 2001. In October 2007 Garneau and Dion held a joint news conference where they announced that Garneau would be the Liberal Party candidate in Westmount—Ville-Marie. With the resignation of Liberal MP Jean Lapierre in 2007 Garneau expressed interest in being the party's candidate in Lapierre's former riding of Outremont.

Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau C. D. F.