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		In summary, the Canadian astronomy and astrophysics community is active, prominent, and working at the forefront in many sub-fields within our discipline. Its record of achievement is clear, and the potential for its even greater success, unparalleled. Canada, with an imaginative allocation of new resources, is poised to make its mark on the era of cosmic exploration that will undeniably dominate our coming century. Should we decide to join this exciting endeavour, our research universities and laboratories will adjust and recruit many new outstanding individuals at all levels in response to this vision. We turn, therefore, to examine the outstanding new world observatories that will make this possible; observatories to which Canadian astronomy and astrophysics could contribute enormously, given the chance.