traing bonds should be against the law, period. IMHO. It is a form of "indenture" which was the PC word for slavery in the not so recent past...
It is shameful that the profession had ever been brought to the level of "bonding" in the first place.
Airlines need to pass their costs on to the customers, not the employees!
If some slacker from Ottawa wants to fly to Vancouver for the price of a bus ticket and take his/her own Subway sandwich and a bottle of water on board, that's just fine. But it shouldn't mean that we have to pay for our own training when a type rating is required within a contract of employment with an airline.