Serge Morel        P.O. Box 17222     Sarasota, FL   34276-0222 Fax:   (941) 378- 8008     e-mail:   serg@gte.net 9/20/2000 Page 36 of 579 The 11th month to be terminated at the 19th month - from June 1978 to February 1979 PRE PRODUCTION PROTOTYPE US Trimble company was created in 1978 and became a US leader for the GLS (GPS). The launch of Anik B satellite is the focal point where the illegal Canadian international technology exchange may have happened. The 13th month to be terminated at the 19th month - from August 1978 to February 1979 PROTOTYPE OF PRODUCTION The 19th month to terminating at the 26th month - from January 1979 PRODUCTION START Surprisingly Hougen (who owned the smallest Canadian cable system associated with his Canadian TV broadcasting company WHTV and his Radio station CKRW) partnered with CBC's Toronto library and WEC Vancouver to provide entertainment programming by TV diffusion.     In the spring of 1979 he said: “ the idea for a satellite network began to take shape and Hougen and his cable system manager,  Rod Wheeler, set about writing his Down to Earth proposal for a  unique distribution system that would solve the problems of communities like Whitehorse. In March 1979, Businessman Rolf Hougen flew to Ottawa to present what he called “his Down to Earth proposal”.  Signals sent to a Canadian geostationary satellite from uplink across the country would be down linked to cable television systems, new ones if necessary, started up by local entrepreneurs in small  and  remote  pockets  of  habitation.  The  proposal  would  not  interfere  with  the  established broadcasting industry in Canada. On April 14, 1980, Hougen and his partners proposed an all-Canadian package - four Canadian signals from uplink sites in Vancouver, Edmonton, Hamilton and Montreal. In December 1979, Hougen approached the Canadian Communication Association CCTA about joining him in the satellite project. A STRONG, and strange, OWNERSHIP CONSORTIUM began after his licenses in 1981. Cancom’s partners in Regional Vision are: Capital Communications CDPQ Inc. , the communications investment arm of the Quebec Investment and Deposit bank; CSL Infrastructure Management Inc., owned by SNC- Lavalin and Clientech Management Services Inc.; and Hougen Communications, owned by Rolf Hougen, founder and Director of Cancom.   In addition, WIC’s 53.7% ownership in Cancom opens the door for shared technology between WIC Connexus and Regional Vision. The Cancom’s partners The first MSSTC PDG Jacques Gilbert, informed of the ACILR project from 1977 to 1979, was hired by SNC-Lavalin  the engineering firm of the  Quebec Government and  Hydro Quebec who become an owner of CSL Infrastructure Management Inc. identified in the Cancom’s partners. Capitals Communications CDPQ Inc., the communications investment arm of the Quebec Investment and Deposit bank  where Vidéotron the Quebec cable company contacted for the ACILR electronic MSSTC bus information diffusion in 1980, financed by the Quebec Investment and Deposit bank in fall of 1980. Vidéotron identified in it's press report that, this financing occurred in 1980.