WILL BOMBARDIER FACTOR IN DND'S REBUILDING?
Bombardier C-Series: Savior or a curse? Any Canadian reading the business news lately knows that Bombardier is in trouble . Layoffs, less-than-hoped demand for the C-Series , and requests for bailouts have made headlines for the Canadian aerospace company. Some of the blame for this is directed at Bombardier's management practices. Bombardier utilized a two-tiered investment structure, in which shares owned by its two founding families (Bombardier and Beaudoin) are worth far more than shares available to the general public. Thanks to this, 13% of the shareholders enjoy a 54% of the voting power. Combined with Bombardier's niche position in the marketplace, investors are likely to think twice . The question is: Do we let Bombardier fail? Some may be tempted to let natural selection take its course. "Darwinism" and all that. Doing so would pretty much devastate Canada's aerospace industry, however. Canada would still have pl...