Bombardier CEO Eric Martel said on Monday he was concerned Washington could target the private planemaker’s U.S. contracts if Canada cancels a C$19 billion ($13.30 billion) deal for 88 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets.
“Effectively, we could be targeted. This is my concern,” Martel told reporters in Montreal after a speech hosted by the Canadian Club.
In October, Montreal-based Bombardier announced the delivery of an eighth jet to the United States Air Force as part of a deal with a potential value of $465 million. The aircraft carry specialized communications platforms.
it sounds like Bombardier needs to do more military jet building and less complaining
The bombardier CEO can go fuck himself. We’ll never forgive those cunts for screwing up or delaying the TTC streetcars multiple times. Useless company.
They will be targeted anyway.
The US is not our friend. Bombardier should look for other markets and diversify.
You would think they’d be smart enough to think about building Gripens under license, but unsurprisingly not.
So truth be told, I haven’t followed the Bombardier saga that much but from all the stories in the past 20 years, it seems incredibly mismanaged…
Sure, let’s drop everything and appease bombardier!
Oh Fuck bombardier
A few years back when the Canadian dollar was higher than the US they refused to lower their Canadian prices. So people started crossing the boarder to buy on in the US. Bombardier told the dealerships in the US they would lose their dealership license if they sold one to a Canadian crossing boarder.
Around that time they also received a large government grant. Free cash and they still wanted to fuck Canada.
This Bombardier doesn’t have dealerships.
They made aircrafts and they haven’t had anything to do with BRP for like
12 years23 years and sold off the transportation (rail) division about 5 years ago.So this is the part Trump attacked last term to protect Boeing. The Bombardier that afterwards sold a chunk of its self to Airbus
Buddy the last time we were at parity was twelve years ago.
Just looked it up, BRP was sold off from Bombardier in 2003…
Okay okay…
But tbh that only points to more shitty decisions at Bombardier. BRP is doing fine, getting rid of it was moronic.
When was the last time CAD was stronger than USD? Oh, 2013, about 12 years ago? Hmm.
BRP was separate from Bombardier since 2003.
Hah, Bombardier is even more incompetent than I thought then.
That’s just what corporations do. Could’ve been any other corporation.
Trump’s pea brain has moved on to other stuff, he will be busy in middle East and try to pretend he never did this tariff nonsense.
