The current contract runs til 2023. It will be re-bid eventually, as a matter of course. As noted, it's a whole different arm of Bombardier than the tram manufacturing.
Why the re-bid is even being mentioned at this point, I don't understand. Somebody has an insatiable desire to publicly poke Bombardier in the eye at every opportunity.
It's as if some powerful person in the food chain (a Deputy Minister, a ML Board member(s), an Ontario Cabinet member, who knows?) just won't let this drop. Okay, maybe there is valid concern about the trams....the solution to that is to enforce your legal rights calmly and assertively. But at the table behind closed doors, not in front of the media. And, you better actually have a case you can enforce.
ML looks pretty stupid when it talks tough and then loses in court. This could be more of same. And, why poison relationships within a key operating contract that has six years remaining?
- Paul
