Will they? Won't they? Will they after all? The latest report has the federal government once again planning to go ahead with the purchase of military aircraft, albeit only a part of the original plan that was apparently undermined by heavy lobbying from Bombardier.
It's not a terrible political move to split the difference between Bombardier's needs and the military's requests for more aircraft, but it still leaves serious questions both as to whether a two-bidder process is really an open tender, and as to how Bill Graham went from publicly stating that no procurement decisions would be made before an election, to strong-arming his party into the purchases.
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