“So, Bombardier and Quebec just gave Airbus a controlling half of a multi-billion dollar investment in return for management expertise?”
Now watch out for the next ‘defensive’ move. An agreement on some ‘cheap’ second hand Rafale aircraft to offset the company purchase, and also defend against any price increase in the recent F18 deal?
Or even Rafales positioned in Canada to be used for NATO training / aggressor tasks, (they have the airspace); this would also contribute to the % spend required by NATO.
Minimise loss of ‘Trump’ face, because more production jobs have been brought into the US ...
Keep your enemies close, your friends even closer.