[3] This was increased to 25% in February 2020, at no cash cost to Investissement Québec, as part of a deal that saw Bombardier sell its share to Airbus.

[4] The Société générale de financement (SGF) was a holding company owned by the Government of Quebec.

[10] In 2019, Investissement Québec acquired a stake in Flying Whales, a start-up specializing in the construction and operation of rigid-structure airships.

Future aerostats are intended for transporting heavy or indivisible loads and could serve the northern regions of Quebec.

The federal government (Ottawa) would wonder about the risk of industrial espionage or the loss of intellectual property due to the presence of the "Chinese state-owned company AVIC" in the shareholding of Flying Whales SAS (with 24.99%).