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Given their track record, Bombardier will probably not seize the reigns and will instead lobby for a government bailout. When it receives it, it will forget that it happened, decide it owes nothing to the Canadian government or populace, and not use the money to improve its products or strategies whatsoever.

I feel confident in saying that it doesn't really deserve to survive. If continuing business was so important, it shouldn't have fucked up so badly for so long. I was living in Kitchener when the GRT's first LRT line was constructed and finished; Bombardier was wholly incompetent and that was a relatively small-scale transit project. There are many more examples of shitty product and business deals across industries in Canada and around the world.

“Cancelling the F-35s might be a good idea, but we need to think about it,” Bombardier Chief Executive Officer Eric Martel told a business audience in Montreal. “We have contracts with the Pentagon. Will there be reciprocity there?”

“Trump isn’t wrong on everything,” Martel said. “We’ve been hiding behind our big brother for a while, and we’re completely dependent on him militarily.”

The CEO seems like he's on Trump's side here. Why bother helping him out when he thinks we deserve the poor treatment from Trump? Let it die. If it's really such an important company with important connections, sell their assets and transfer non-executive personnel to a (preferably nationalized) company that actually deserves a chance.