[Newsbot]

Title: Trudeau's new government to face early pressure on Bombardier bailout decision
Category: Political
Posted By: andyt
Date: 2015-11-03 06:43:47
Canadian

[andyt]

Aaaaand they're off. Lay your bets.

[Lemmy]

Bombardier is behind on its delivery of street cars to the TTC. Why? Because they can't get the Mexicans at their factory down there to make proper welds so the damn things won't stay together. As a result, the TTC is moving forward with a lawsuit against Bombardier for breach of contract. So we're going to bail out a company that's facing failure-to-deliver penalties and a lawsuit because they're inept? The feds are going to give this company money to turn around and pay fines to a different government? Really?

Would you get on a Bombardier plane? Not me.

[BartSimpson]

Hate to say but if Bombardier goes under then Canada won't have an aircraft industry at all. Your engineers will all have to move to the US to find work.

[andyt]

Bombardier's strange chokehold on the public purse

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bombard ... -1.3300764

$1:

Michael Moffatt, an economist at the University of Western Ontario's Ivey School of Business, says there is absolutely such a thing as too big to fail, and Bombardier qualifies, and that's that.

But at least, he says, we should call these "investments" what they actually are: "old-fashioned, Seventies-style, direct job creation."

For everybody else, well, good luck.

[xerxes]

I was on a bombardier CRJ7 back in May. I liked it. For a small short vault airliner it was quite roomy even for my 6'3" frame.

[fifeboy]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Bombardier is behind on its delivery of street cars to the TTC. Why? Because they can't get the Mexicans at their factory down there to make proper welds so the damn things won't stay together. As a result, the TTC is moving forward with a lawsuit against Bombardier for breach of contract. So we're going to bail out a company that's facing failure-to-deliver penalties and a lawsuit because they're inept? The feds are going to give this company money to turn around and pay fines to a different government? Really?

Would you get on a Bombardier plane? Not me.

Didn't they used to make them in TBay? My landlord, when I lived there , worked for Canada Car. Bettcha he could weld!

[Lemmy]

fifeboy fifeboy:

Didn't they used to make them in TBay? My landlord, when I lived there , worked for Canada Car. Bettcha he could weld!

That's half the problem, shipping the stuff back and forth. Components come to TBay, they're not up to snuff, so they get shipped back to Mexico.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2015/05/13/ttc-issues-with-bombardier-streetcars-also-apply-to-metrolinx-order.html

Maybe they don't teach welding in Mexican highschools.