Chicago  and Boston have placed  big order with CRRC a Chinese company  which is having big problems with its Singapore order. Bombardier is regarded as one of the best Transit vehicle manufacturers in the world, right up there with Alstom (France), Siemens (Germany), Ansaldo-Breda (Italy), Hyundai (Korea), Kawasaki (Japan), Hitachi (Japan) . Fast rising are two Chinese companies CSR and  CNR there is amalgamation talk which would make the leading Chinese company a world leader in volume by a wide margin. If the Beaudoin- Bombardier families did not have control of Bombardier it would have been sold off to a foreign company with its assets stripped and flipped a long time ago. In other words Canada's last high tech company operating on an international scale would have gone the way of Northern Telecom and RIM . Bombardier is a well respected company in Germany where it is a significant operator. I know this from first hand experience.