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The Quebec stock purchase looks rather intuitive as the value of that stock has risen over 20% since last year when they acquired it. If the Federal loan is paid back at least in part by the company that part will be hard to sustain.
Actually the feds have already paid much of the cost of the loan by not having to pay unemployment, welfare for the workers while at the same time collecting income tax from those same well paid employees. The C-series is selling well enough to keep them going for years.
We will see how serious the Federal government are as Boeing has large orders with WestJet and Air Canada to which similar tariffs could be applied. They can also begin to search for a replacement from other suppliers for Canada does not really need all the bells and whistles...it needs range and reliability.