RE:Negativity Actually, this is not negativity as this have nothing to do with BBD.
This is more of nostalgic debate like we have in france for Alstom or Alcatel.
It go nowere, but, generaly speaking we like to remember the old days and the mistake. Kind of a "Nostalgie Triste" we love to live with and debate :).
Personaly, i think that BBD should not have started this kind of projects without the support of the sate. And in canada they cant have it because Canada is to divided to have a national project, also because canadians think that national projects should not exist in modern economy (Generaly speaking it s right, but not in strategic sovereignty sectors), so it was just going nowere.
Dont forget that when you deliver the first plane, you are just in the middle of the investment. Ramp up the production, pay the suppliers is a lot of money. And because you fight against big guys producing 42 planes a month and going to ramp up to 70 planes a month to counter the russians and the chinese comming soon, the step is even higher than before.
You have to invest a lot achieve a hight production rate to have a competitive offre. It mean, you are going to lose a lot of money for the next 10 years to come.