It is all very nice for the Globe and Mail and its various columnists to lambaste Bombardier, something they and others have done repeatedly over the years. But this outcome or something worse was totally predictable given the abject lack for more than 40 years of a national industrial policy to protect and develop our sovereign industrial assets and capabilities. Where was the federal government and the senior civil servants of ministries such as Industry Canada all those years in terms of making certain this outcome was not a foregone conclusion? Do we have any doubts that their counterparts in other so-called developed countries would not have been heavily involved in the scenarios to make Bombardier more resilient by forcing it to have a defense division, amongst others,  and vetting any partnerships. Bombardier was given public funds without any due consideration to foster our sovereignty. This is the comment that should have been made a long time ago by all the Cassandras.