For the government the answer is cancel the Super Hornet and invite proposals from Europe, China and Russia, requiring the assembly to be done in Canada at Bombardier. It is a stop gap measure for the short term but a powerful message to Boeing and the US Commerce Department that wants to renegotiate NAFTA. Boeing's easy answer would be to buy Bombardier's aircraft division, given that it is the main drain on the rest of the company and virtually bankrupt it could be had for a song.