Bombardier - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Bombardier is Medium Risk.

Bombardier is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Bombardier occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Medium Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Bombardier has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Bombardier does not discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs. The company’s charitable giving focus areas are “Education, Environmental sustainability and Socioeconomic development” (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Bombardier appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment. From its 2023 Environmental, social and governance report: Its D&I forum determined “to increase the number of Black employees in its workforce through outreach activities, such as participating in recruiting events” and to “Increase the hire of underrepresented groups” (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its hiring, promotions and leadership composition. From its 2023 Environmental, Social and Governance report: the company plans to “Equip leaders to identify unconscious biases in making decisions on development opportunities and promotions” while committing to “gender diversity and female leadership” and “Diverse internship and scholarship programs” (2). The company offers unconscious bias training to its employees (3). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Bombardier hosted several D&I Forums, including a BProud D&I Forum (1). The company is aligned with the Paris Agreement, which entails a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (2). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2023 Environmental, social and governance report: “At Bombardier, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) topics are under the primary responsibility of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors (Board), composed exclusively of independent members, which recommends approval of the ESG plan to the Board” (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Bombardier donated to the Montréal Gay and Lesbian Community Centre (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Bombardier has not used its PAC donations or lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).