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Bombardier officials on a stop in Edmonton are promising the new Valley Line LRT rail cars will be a “showcase” project that leave supply chain troubles in the distant past.

“You’re getting the best of Bombardier,” said Benoit Brossoit, the company’s president for the Americas Region.

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“For us, Edmonton is going to be a showcase of what we really can do,” he said while sitting down with the Edmonton Journal after touring construction already underway — the new line will run between downtown and Mill Woods — and meeting with city officials.

Years of delay and defects for Toronto’s new streetcars — a similar model to Edmonton’s — have left Bombardier’s reputation bruised. The company was two years late on delivery of its first cars and had to revise the schedule multiple times, leaving citizens of Toronto stranded as the old fleet kept breaking down.

But Brossoit is now selling a message that those issues are fixed. The company invested $11 million into a new Kingston, Ont., facility in part to accommodate production of Edmonton’s new rail cars. Manufacturing, he said, is on schedule.