aquateam
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Can you rephrase this or add more parameters? It's missing context to reference. You qualify your query by stating "this decade", and I'm clearly on record of (gist) "agreeing with all the claims above", but here's retrospect, and this is still ongoing to varying degrees:
To be fair, all the outcry from this deal is what lead to the streetcar order being open tender. And now, Ontario goes out of its way to buy vehicles from other manufacturers at a worse cost just to avoid relying solely on Bombardier.
And it's not just subjective anecdotes, Quebec really does practice corporate welfare to a much larger extent than other provinces:
Quebec Is Still a Corporate Subsidy Champion
Now confirmed to be 153 cars / 17 trains, because that's the largest amount of extra Azur trains that the STM's existing maintenance facilities can handle.
Price will be negotiated later, but is estimated at 350 millions or more
That means 200 Bombardier jobs maintained for 18 more months in La Pocatière
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1103901/metro-montreal-stm-153-wagons-trains-azur-ligne-verte
The article doesn't mention the job implications for the Alstom plant in Sorel, which still had somewhere around 100 employees working on the Azur train project.
Interestingly, before this new contract was arranged, Alstom had already announced last month that 80 jobs would be maintained in Sorel after the Azur contract ended in november 2018, because they're producing some of the Santiago metro bogies and some work on the Ottawa/Metrolinx LRV contracts.
Ah, so they won't be buying trains to fill the 10 new spaces from the big new underground garage currently under construction?