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This is fairly predictable. With a hostile Trump administration towards Canada, we're losing influence with Canadians so they will continue to cozy up with Europe.

Not sure what Trump's endgame here is other than alienating once allies and economic partners. Trump went instantly to nuclear and Trudeau was forced to respond in kind. This is what happens when diplomacy is little more than namecalling and 'my way or the highway.' The USA isn't this unstoppable juggernaut everyone must bow down to and accept being bullied from. Europe, China, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, etc are all vying for influence and will take advantage of our every misstep. Europe certainly did today.

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It’s still a win for Boeing and Trump. Bombardiers plans to enlarge the CS series to compete with the 737 will not happen as Airbus already has the Neo. The threat of a new entrant is gone, jobs move out of Canada to the airbus plant in the US, and the CS stays at a size below the prime markets Boeing and Airbus compete in. While I am sure Boeing would rather have the program killed entirely this still works out very well for them.

The A319neo is as good as dead. According to https://www.ft.com/content/201bf186-b350-11e7-a398-73d59db9e... , the A319neo hasn't had a sale in over 4 years. Airbus previously passed on this Bombardier deal several years ago because of the market segment conflict with the A319. Given there have been zero sales in the interim, I think it's a safe assumption that Airbus has decided to throw in the towel on the A319 and embrace the C-Series. Not just for the product but also for the strategic multinational relationships. Maximizing those relationships requires committing to the C-Series. The deal doesn't make sense unless Airbus is all-in.

Your point about a stretched C-Series being off the table stands, but that's very different from Airbus suffocating the C-Series altogether. With the A319 out of the way Airbus would have every incentive to position the C-Series against the smaller 737MAX variants.

The current C series does not really compete with the 737MAX for most routes, that is one of the absurd things about Boeing’s trade dispute. Boeing does not have a 737MAX small enough to overlap the CS is a 717compwtitor which they don’t make anymore anyway. It was all about what could be, not really about the CS as it is available today.

According to Wikipedia the CS300 has the same seating capacity as the 737MAX 7. The CS300 has a shorter range--3,300 nmi vs 3,825 nmi. OTOH, I imagine it's a lighter plane and much more fuel efficient.

Is the range a big deal for most customers? Or are the CS300 numbers not realistic to put it in the same class as the 737MAX 7?

You are right the high end of the CS300 competes with the low end of the 737. I was thinking of the actual trade dispute Boeing filed which was over the sale of CS100 aircraft to Delta, which actually does not compete with the 737.

CSeries Production for US market will be in USA.

Trump gets to say that he brought jobs to USA.

Using the ratio of nominal GDPs (12:1), if the US economy was a 240 lb man then the Canadian economy would be a 9 month old baby. That 300% spanking was more than a little correction to even out some unfair(?!) subsidies. That 240 lb man's gut punch to the baby involved a lot of punishing cruelty and malice too. And this is not the only beating that that man has delivered. Eventually, the baby will recoil and look elsewhere. Hey, China, EU, TPP, Latin American, anyone wanna play nicely?

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