| | | | Listen to this newsletter
Available in English, French or Mandarin  | | | | As Bombardier Inc. weighs its strategic options to tackle a crippling $9-billion debt load, its first priority could be to buy back the minority stake in its train business owned by Canadian pension giant Caisse de dépot et placement du Québec.
| Bombardier struck a deal with the Caisse in November, 2015, to sell a 30-per-cent stake in the unit, known as Bombardier Transportation (BT), for US$1.5-billion. The deal bolstered Bombardier’s balance sheet at a critical time, replenishing depleted cash reserves used to bring the C Series jet to market.
|  | | | More stories below advertisement | | | | Michael Babad's Business Briefing | | | | When Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry attends this coming week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, he will be touting a policy that his government has not yet introduced.
| As part of an effort to attract green investment, Navdeep Bains will highlight a 50-per-cent corporate tax cut for companies that develop and manufacture net-zero-emissions technology – a commitment that was made by Justin Trudeau’s Liberals during last fall’s election campaign and received limited attention at the time.
| | | | | Technology, telecom and media | | | | | |
/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/42G34QYMARCVHL7SVVWP6YTD5A.JPG "Bombardier says priority is buying back Caisse’s stake in train unit")
Bombardier says priority is buying back Caisse’s stake in train unit
/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/R5DMCQB5ZBHNXD3U7IASTB7PVQ.jpg "Germany takes on Big Tech: Inside the fight to curb the power of global data giants")
/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/QECTXNXQ7JDC5HYODYXZTTYDNU.jpg "Electric Overdrive: Why Tesla’s soaring stock keeps defying doubters")
/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/N2FD2IQCGZGPVJ22NNUXXNFYCY.JPG "The tax implications the Sussexes would face in Canada")
/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/64OBHC5HERLKBE2LX4MEIJ3EZA.jpg "Rogers rolls out 5G wireless networks in major Canadian cities")
