Inside One of Canada's Most Secretive Agencies
Indeed, their money was especially welcome in two Canadian corporate headquarters, one in Montreal, the other in Ottawa. In a lengthy email thread strung out over the course of 2014, it was revealed that Bombardier had negotiated the sale of a luxury jet to a subsidiary of the Guptas' umbrella firm, Oakbay Investments. The new aircraft came outfitted with dark wood panelling, a gold swoosh along the fuselage, and a $52 million price tag. For anyone with even a cursory interest in corporate news, Bombardier's involvement with the Guptas would not have come as a surprise. In recent years,...