Bombardier Steps Up Lobbying Amid CSeries Financial Squeeze
- Federal communications rise to highest level since 2007
- Ottawa ties are reinforced ahead of Liberals' bailout review
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Bombardier Inc. has increased lobbying of Canada’s federal government to an eight-year high, reinforcing its Ottawa connections as officials there prepare to review whether to join Quebec in helping bail out the struggling CSeries jet.
Canada’s largest aerospace company communicated 50 times with federal officials since Jan. 1, more than any full year in records dating to 2007, according to the government’s lobbyist registry. The total for 2014 was 48.