Your article “A down-home hero: Bombardier is taking Quebec to the world” (Business, Sept. 11) should have been titled “Bombardier is taking Canada to the cleaners.” When Ottawa pays them $150 million more for 2,700 army trucks than it would have paid a U.S. firm and then gives them the CF-18 jet fighter maintenance contract at a much higher price than a Winnipeg firm bid, I don’t think Mulroney’s nine-per-cent Goods and Services Tax will be enough to pay for the ever-increasing amount of money (our money) that is being poured into Quebec.
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