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Veto leaves MDA stuck with unwanted division

WENDY STUECK

From Friday's Globe and Mail

VANCOUVER — With Ottawa shooting down its planned $1.3-billion deal with a U.S. company, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. is now saddled with a space division it no longer wants. Now, with no Canadian buyer on the horizon, the Richmond, B.C.-based builder of the Canadarm company has to hatch a new plan to best deploy its unwieldy mix of assets, which includes the sky-roving Radarsat 2.

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