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Quebec plans to ask Canada’s federal government to match the province’s $1 billion investment in Bombardier Inc.’s CSeries program to round out the funding for the troubled jet and assuage any lingering customer concerns.

“If the federal government comes in, the notion of risk completely changes,” Economy Minister Jacques Daoust said Friday in a telephone interview from Montreal. “If the federal government also put in $1 billion, that would mean the CSeries financing package would be complete.”

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His comments underscored Quebec’s determination to prop up the marquee aircraft model at Montreal-based Bombardier, which has been draining cash amid missed deadlines, cost overruns and scant interest among major airlines. Bombardier said Thursday that the jet will need an additional $2 billion during the next five years.

In specifying a figure, Daoust also made clear Quebec’s expectations about the extent of federal aid as incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party takes office next week. Bombardier assistance would be studied once the new leadership is in place, party spokesman Dan Lauzon said Thursday.