The British press said that confidential cabinet meetings had the PM, etc., saying that the Government of Canada had brought this on themselves..

Irrespective of whether or not you believe other governments support various industries (they do), or Boeing is barking up the wrong tree (ALL companies do "loss leaders" on the introduction of a new product, from a soft drink, to a new airliner), there are less obvious ways to provide this assistance, than the way in which Quebec, and the Federal government went about it...

And the UK government knows it, it just has to put out a front, in order to preserve the government coalition support from the Northern Ireland seats...etc.