RE:RE:Canada should demand their money backActually it was to little to late.
I mean, if you give money, it s to keep the control.
Losing the control, you are losing everything.
As usual when you don t have the control, the only you can do to (Sauver la face) is to ask the company to make public statements like, we promise to keep all the jobs for 10 years. But, 3 years later they will cut, and 20 years later you look arround and there is nothing left.
And it s just normal.
Just, think about what a french or german guy is going to do when he have to take a decision about a new factory, or when they need to cut jobs, what will be his decision?
So, yea, by doing to little, this is a complet lost.
After, thinking about money for this kind of plane is a mistake.
A plane like this dont make money, it cost money, but in return you creat good jobs, you have good engineer scools, you create a pool (Ecosysteme), and you invest in technologie to improve your national independance.
The investment you have to do to have this Ecosysteme is huge and priceless, and will give you your money back 20 or 30 years later but not before.
So this it s more about a national project to be supported with public money, and it s a matter of national independance. So yes, Airbus was a political project as a start (Now he is so powerfull that they dont need it annymore, but, we are 40 years later), COMAC sure is naitonal project for the chinese, Boeing is also for the US, the russians are coming back to...
But a private company, without public money, going into this, it s was crasy bet actually.