Bombardier (Canadian co.) lands major contract

you can't be serious, the steel tariffs have sent hundereds of thousands of American manufacturing jobs to Canada and Mexico, (where they use the exact same steel as before and import the finished goods under NAFTA) and those jobs aren't comming back.

The communist farm subsudies are going to make American farms about as productive as Soviet collective farms, and invite reciprocal measures by our trading partners.

The tariffs against Canadian wood have made us look like fscking idiots, both because of our tree hugger environmental laws and because the 'canadian subsudies' are infact nothing more than low taxes on Canadian producers.

The trade measures that have been made by the Bush administration are disastrous, they are shipping American jobs north and south, they are going to turn American farms into state sponsored wastelands and they are destroying our trading credibility with the rest of the world.

The only reason Bush is doing this is because he wants to garner union support in West Virginia, Ohio and the mid-west, there is absolutly no economic rational for it what-so-ever... or anything else this administration has done

My reaction is not a knee-jerk. American soldiers do not serve under foreign officers. It is offensive that American citizens are employed, in America, by the likes of Kanuckistani socialists who only prosper because their government illegally and immorally subsidizes them.

Your ignorance of Canadian business practices reminds me of the currency traders who tanked our dollar during the Asian meltdown in '98. They foresaw lower demand for raw material, assumed that we produce nothing but raw material, and in panic mode picked up their Canadian-made telephones or logged into their Canadian-programmed computers connected to Nortel routers and placed their sell orders.

No, there are no domestic RJ's produced. Fairchild/Dornier makes a good aircraft, but the company is not faring well in competition. Besides, it's not truly domestic.

RJ's came into vogue as a direct result of pilot contracts at the major airlines. A seat limit was established below which pilots were not required to be unionized (the dreaded "scope clause"). So, the RJ enabled the regional affiliates of the majors to offer jet service and reduce the unprofitable network at the majors.

Today, Bombardier & Embraer are the RJ games in town. BAE makes the AVRO (formerly the BAE146), but it's not a profitable jet (has four small engines--I've heard it referred to an a jet with 5 APU's!).

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