* Written from the downtown Toronto airport lounge.
Gambling with other people's money is a lot easier than doing it with your own.
Canada exports most of its oil refinery to the United States so it can double dip on taxes. It as a result employs Americans in the refineries. Should we stop subsidizing American jobs then?
I don't think many Canadians realise just how many non-Canadian workers they are subsidising as a result of all of this. There is the official logic of training locals in skills that get imported alongside government incentives, however, what seems to happen is you get a mobile group of people that just follow the incentives around from province to province.
One thing Bombardier do have in their favour is they are a local entity and the taxes on any profits do return to the system, so I can't fault them on that.
I am not sure why you're angry unless you're Canadian yourself then I guess you're justified.
I'm angry because Canada would be far better off as a whole without this, and the parasitic bureaucracy that sucks the life out of the non-subsidised parts of the system.
The non-Canadian workers are still paying Canadian taxes - Quebec taxes, even. Quebec's government wants its population to grow fast, especially so when they're high-earners. The investment absolutely makes sense from that respect.