We need a total rethink of how to spur sustainable Canadian economic dynamism. There are two basic models, one traditional and one nascent, by which we’ve sought to secure Canadian economic leadership. Bombardiers’s preoccupation with the more glamourous C Series has cost its enormous but struggling rail division orders worldwide. But Airbus has the marketing heft to make the C Series a workhorse in the fleets of the scores of airlines with which it does business. Concern has been expressed this week that Airbus might increase C Series jobs at its Alabama plant at the expense of job creation in Montreal.

Source: thestar October 20, 2017 15:00 UTC