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The provincial government would be open to investing more in Bombardier, Quebec’s economy minister said following a meeting with the company’s president and CEO, Alain Bellemare, on Friday morning.

“There’s no requirement for us to invest,” Pierre Fitzgibbon said Friday morning, but he said he made it clear to Bellemare “that would there be a requirement, would there be an opportunity, we would be open for business.”

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The aerospace industry is “of paramount importance to the province of Quebec,” he said.

The meeting came the day after Quebec’s securities regulator confirmed it was reviewing a Bombardier program that allows certain senior executives to sell shares in the company during periods when they would otherwise not be allowed to, by giving instructions in advance.

The company has said is is cooperating with the investigation by the Autorité des marchés financiers. Fitzgibbon refused to comment on it.