The procurement of the O-Train system belongs to the City of Ottawa and the City of Ottawa follows its procurement approach. Like the federal government and the provincial government, it has gone through a public open tender call for proposals, and that's how the technology was selected. You may know that the current O-Train is in fact Bombardier technology. Bombardier has not won the full contract now; it will be Siemens. We believe that an open and fair transparent tendering system is the way to go, and that's what the federal government itself practises for any procurements.
On September 26th, 2006. See this statement in context.