It would take a lot of guts and a will of steel to get this plane to fly as 100% Canadian.  We had the know how to almost do it.  We had a lot of courage from the company that almost went broke trying.  They got it off the ground.

Yes they were over budget.  Boeing wasn't on the Dreamliner?  Which by the way won't be making any money except for the tax write-offs for decades.  Not to mention the other $millions offered by state subsidies.

Boeing and Airbus cut their prices to keep the C series out of the market.  When that failed the US applied tariffs.

The C series is a great plane and will fly now under the Airbus flag.  We had a chance but lacked the conviction to follow through.  No thanks to the gutless 
business and media class we have in this country.  I lose it everyday hearing some broker on BNN in a bad suit say he won't invest in bbd.b because it's subsidized.  

Let's just build another pipeline to the US Gulf Coast and ship raw crude. Don't
forget the subsides.