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Today, UAS operations are authorized by Transport Canada with the issuance of a Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC). Whereas virtually no SFOCs were issued when we started working in earnest with Transport Canada, by 2012 that number had grown to 345, then 945 in 2013 and 1,672 in 2014: we expect that the 2015 tally will follow that growth curve. These SFOCs are being achieved by industry and the regulator working to the results of the Phase 1 work, while awaiting formalization in law. What this means is, that the regulatory efforts to date, have already realized the remarkable economic growth which Unmanned Systems Canada had projected! Every day, somewhere in Canada UAS are:

o Rapidly providing police with high quality airborne data for accident scene reconstruction, significantly reducing the time for reopening our transportation arteries;

o Undertaking monitoring of structures such as industrial flare stacks and cell phone towers, improving safety while lowering costs;

o Increasing crop yields while reducing the use of pesticides and herbicides and growing the discipline of precision agriculture;

o Used for environmental monitoring ranging from non-intrusive surveillance of bird sanctuaries to industrial facilities in our energy sector;

o Used on film sets to improve the quality of their product, while enhancing the competitiveness of our film industry; and

o Site planning, project monitoring, aggregate pit measurements and a host of other applications in the construction industry.