1. Just because other countries subsidize their aircraft industry is no reason to do it

2. Canada is the smallest country by far to try and get into this business. The next smallest? Japan and Russia each with over 4x Canada’s population.

3. Bombardier stupidly thought that no other manufacturer would be using the new P&W geared fan turbines for fuel efficiency gains.....duh. There goes one major advantage.

4. Every company that does business with large organizations like the government uses the revenue to spread base costs around. You can disagree all you want but this is not a subsidy.