(B)(N) Dream Canada – Bombardier & Air Canada

Figure 1: Avro Arrow 1959 Only Mach 2 at 50,000 Feet

Drama. Canada has been trying to develop an aerospace industry for decades and apart from WestJet and Porter Airlines (which is privately owned), the magnates in Ottawa have only delivered the Avro Arrow fiasco of the 50’s somehow related to defense, and the lavishly financed Bombardier C-Series that’s already obsolete and has yet to fly anywhere, and Air Canada (right) when we might have just done the business as customers with money to spend and exports to offset them in a much larger industry in the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, Israel, and Brazil, any of whom would like to sell us the aircraft of our dreams at low and negotiable prices and we could use the money that we saved to get low and negotiable fares to anywhere.

And the customer is always right (Bloomberg, September 27, 2017, Bombardier Tumbles on New Blow to $6 Billion Bet-the-Company Jet) and always gets what they want eventually, but the government doesn’t get that and the industry and its shareholders, many of whom are in the US, have dutifully preyed on that romantic national and nationalized flight of fancy which now jeopardizes the fortunes of about 90,000 employees who have come to rely on those companies for their jobs and pensions.

And, so, in our view, Air Canada and Bombardier are “investments” only in the deep pockets of the government and the taxpayers as needed.

For example, Air Canada has never paid a dividend and can’t control its earnings despite steady revenues and it’s also slated to be a customer for up to 75 of said Bombardier C-Series aircraft (costing USD$6.3 billion which is more than 5× its net worth and half its total assets) which have never been flown in commercial traffic, and the management of Bombardier is totally opaque to anything but new owners and has paid “dividends” of $300 million against losses of ($11 billion) in the last three years; please see Exhibit 1 below (and click on it and again to make it larger as required).

Exhibit 1: Dream Canada – Bombardier & Air Canada – Fundamentals

But the stock market is transparent and always an investment for us in troubled times and by betting on them (the shareholders) and how they choose to spend their money on “Dream Canada” in the stock market, we’re flying high at +1400% on our money in the risk market and an average of 60% a year for five years in the risk-free (B)-Class Portfolio for these two companies (please see below) and, after all, we’re Canadians too in pursuit of the “Dream Canada” but, alas, not a seat on Air Canada.

Dream Canada – Bombardier & Air Canada

Exhibit 2: Dream Canada – (B)-Class Portfolio – Cash Flow Summary

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