text: Bombardier is a vital root of Quebec's political and economic history - financed and re-financed through decades by taxpayers across the whole country. Millions and millions of federal dollars thrown in to allow Quebec's voters and its "elite" to think that the province can do things all on its own. Both the Pierre Trudeau Liberal government and the Mulroney Tory government "helped" Bombardier for years because it was in "la belle province" - where both men grew up. The company Bombardier would've died a long, long time ago if "profit" had been a priority (as it should be).