text: If only life (read: reality) was so simple...
  The entire aircraft industry (everywhere) is 75% politics and 25% business. No plane manufacturer would survive without generous grants, subsidies and other forms of state intervention/support.
  That applies to Boeing as well; that company's defense arm is the one that keeps the civilian side alive.
  AC's Airbus fleet acquisition goes back to the Mulroney era and a certain Mr. Schreiber's 'activities'.
  As for whether Embraer, or Bombardier - makes no particular difference; it is the clash of beggars, really.