• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    Grew up in the Canadian prairies. As a child I heard the word “Bomba Deer” bandied about. I think it was snow machines of some sort. I now wonder if they meant “Bom-bard-eee-ay”.

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    As many people have pointed out, Bombardier already does build in the US. They have some form of operations in 20 US states and a supplier network covering 47, and the company estimates it supports tens of thousands of American jobs.

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      the company estimates it supports tens of thousands of American jobs.

      Not for long if they are smart.

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      They put outs into that agreement. Reviewing it every 5 years and final say on any trade agreement made with countries not in the agreement.

      Canada’s China deal needs US approval to keep us in CUSMA.

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      Canada and Mexico should coordinate to expel the US car companies at the same time. This won’t happen because a lot of people would suddenly become unemployed, though.

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        We should make a community of people who work together to make new cars to sell to the capitalist hell scape we are in, Canada and Mexico can work with a social frame work towards vehicle manufacturing. There is a word for that, an -ism of some sort, kinda like our healthcare system now what could that word be?

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    This is reminiscent to how the Airbus A220 came to be. Boeing got all pissy about Bombardier selling their new narrow-body CSeries for cheaper than the 737 and lobbied the government to block the sale, arguing the industry could be threatened.

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    Fine. We’ll sell to the rest of the world while your domestic industry builds planes that have a nasty habit of falling out of the sky.

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    Anyone who denies this is anything less than a trade war is someone who fantasizes about bullies.