NEWSLETTER Canada is planning for a literal moonshot as soon as 2023 Politics Insider for Dec. 17: A Canadian will join a mission to orbit the moon, Carla Qualtrough admits the government's mistakes and Santa Claus is declared an essential worker December 17, 2020 The moon rises above the forest in Qilian County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Dec. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Hongxiang via Getty Images) Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s A little piece of Canada is resting on the moon. When the first lunar module touched down on July 20, 1969, its legs were manufactured by a Quebec-based company named Héroux Machine Parts. This is the sort of trivia Canadians take seriously. Nobody builds space appendages better than us. We’re even building our third Canadarm for the Lunar Gateway space station. But yesterday came a significant new announcement: Canada will send two