I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA.

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.

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