Certainly there were efforts. In some cases it was reactive efforts. When the government took over Canadair and de Havilland—in a way they didn't have much of a choice, the companies might have gone under—those were reactive policies, which were very good in that case. It supported the industry and helped it, and eventually Bombardier took over and it's one of the largest aerospace industries in the world.
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