Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada takes steps to clear Boeing 737 MAX to fly again; Feds to replace PM’s aging plane” – below is their description.
Boeing’s troubled 737 MAX planes are a step closer to flying again in Canada after Transport Canada approved some design changes to the aircraft.
Abigail Bimman explains why the victims’ families are still concerned, and what other changes Transport Canada is calling for.
Plus, the federal government says it will finally replace the military’s aging fleet of Polaris VIP and transport planes that the prime minister and the governor general use.
Mercedes Stephenson looks at how much the new aircraft will cost, and which company could manufacture them.
The Boeing Company (LON: BOE) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support services.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.