But it was a loss. It's unfortunate that you don't see it that way.
Jeepers Steve, why are you being so contrarian today?
Would you use IVI ammo if it was currently available , given all the other choices today, just because it was Canadian? Recalling the quality of the last 22LR I shot, I would not.
I get that losing a national manufacturer was a loss. What I meant to say was that as run by IVi, it was not surprising it failed. Just another Quebec company all too eager to take government assistance, but still manage to fail.
It sounds like Bombardier is next. It also sounds that Bombardier is deserving to fail. NYC would rather run old decrepit subway cars than the new Bombardier they bought. The old are more reliable. How is that possible? I read that they sold off the airplane they designed, that may have saved their bacon, to service debt. They're years behind on delivery of LRT cars, what they deliver is not reliable, they've decimated their aircraft division, their ATVs are over priced. What's left? Yet they continue to ask for more government money. How many times have we given them money only to see the executives paid extravagant bonuses and raises? No more money for Bombardier until it is a public company. That family cannot run it.
With the CF contract, IVI should have been able to make it, even if just as a military ammo supplier. The fact they couldn't make a go of it, is very telling.
Too think that Dominion/CIL/Imperial was very innovative in its day, it's shameful that IVI destroyed it. That IVI is no longer here, is no great loss. That there is currently no national ammo maker, that's a loss.