Airbus

As taxpayer-funded gambles go, there have been riskier ones than Quebec’s flyer on the Bombardier CSeries jet

As carriers park old fuel-guzzling jets, plane makers are battling to win sales and crush newcomers

Book by James Fallows

A patent dispute between Airbus and a Boeing ally centers around a fuel-saving device

In five years, over 50 commercial airplanes crashed in loss-of-control accidents. What’s going on?

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Its new CSeries jet could launch it into the big leagues, or flop

Six years later, Mulroney has yet to give us a convincing account of his deal with Schreiber. Can we really leave it at that?

Is there anyone, anywhere, who will support even one line of what Brian Mulroney has told the Oliphant inquiry? Not only are there no supporting documents, no paper trail, no witnesses to corroborate any of the fantastic account he has given of his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber — aside, that is, from Forgetful Fred Doucet, his faithful retainer and fellow recipient of Schreiber’s largesse — but on key points he is flatly contradicted by people in a position to know. Or indeed, by his own evidence.

Mulroney’s apparent total naiveté about corrupt international business practices prior to “1996 or 1997” is hard to understand.

One of the thorniest issues raised by Brian Mulroney’s testimony is the question of what connection, if any, he had with Franz Josef Strauss, the late chairman of Airbus and noted benefactor of conservative politicians around the world — including Mulroney, as it happens. It was Strauss’s money that Karlheinz Schreiber contributed to the dump-Clark movement at the 1983 leadership review, paving the way for Mulroney to become Conservative leader and, a year later, Prime Minister.

What Mathias seems to know is mostly false. It is a much larger story. The money came to BRITAN. This money was not for me. I know who BRITAN was. Now there is a big story for you. For the moment it is not relevant to my role, but I know I wasn’t BRITAN, and I know who BRITAN was…