Montreal-based planemaker Bombardier Inc. is expected to lose a hotly contested U.S. trade dispute this week, a federal government source told Reuters on Thursday, likely inflaming tensions between Ottawa and Washington during talks to modernize NAFTA. Boeing Co., the world's largest maker of jetliners, accuses Bombardier of dumping the planes in the U.S. market. The fate of the C Series and the well-paid jobs associated with the plane is important both to Ottawa and the British government. Boeing argues its business was hurt because Bombardier received illegal government subsidies and dumped the C Series through the 2016 sale of 75 jets to Delta Air Lines. No C Series planes have been delivered yet.

Source: CBC News January 25, 2018 21:11 UTC