ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

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For example they enter a bid for a rail project and then a few months later announce that the production facilities in the country will be shut down because of lack of contracts.

Sometimes they shut them down anyway:

In 2000, Bombardier announced it was to close the subsidiary plant BN Manage based in Manage, Belgium; the action attracted criticism from both trade unions and the Belgian government; perception was that Bombardier had used the 'jobs card' to win a Belgian double deck train contract worth 8.5 billion Belgian francs. The closure announcement came as a complete volte-face from Bombardier's previous statements which included optimistic statements about the Manage plant's future.

The little local tie-in (and the reason I knew of this instance) is that it was that ex-BN site in Manage that developed the low-floor Flexity bogies shortly before being closed.