The TTC order was financed, in part, by the Province. The only two Liberal-held seats from Northern Ontario in the Legislature are from Thunder Bay. Ontario is seeing manufacturing jobs vanish.
There are articles in both the Globe and the Financial Post discussing BBD's poor stock performance. Both focus on the company's troubled air sector and don't even mention the rail business, let alone reporting anything about how this order isn't progressing well.
As yet, the TTC hasn't had to withdraw a visible number of CLRV/ALRV vehicles from service permanently. The fleet keeps running, bandaids or not.
The TTC is doing its diligence and positioning itself so that it's clear that they aren't tolerating BBD's poor performance.
Will the TTC actually pull the trigger on BBD? I'd love to peek at that "confidential attachment". A 5% penalty seems like a drop in the bucket.
I doubt Ms Wynne has what it takes to play hardball here, and I suspect that she, and not the TTC, has the hammer on this issue.
- Paul