It is a sad day, but it was always in the cards. Aircraft companies bet the company on every new plane they design and manufacture. There was no way that the only two major airline manufacturers in the world would sit back and watch Bombardier enter their market.  It was the height of naivety for Bombardier to believe that making a great plane would alone mean success. Yet they rolled the dice and, very probably, lost. But I hope not. I hope Airbus can carry the ball and make this project fly by carving out the niche market that Bombardier always argued existed.  It's clear company officials were initially very hesitant about this project. Frankly, the federal and provincial governments should have stepped in years ago and stopped Bombardier from playing a reckless game with their employees's jobs and the future of the company.