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Has it been greeted warmly in Canada? I certainly don't get that sense.

The sense I've gotten is that there was a lot of concern from potential customers about the ability of Bombardier to continue the C-series program without being able to sell to the US market. This deal assuages those concerns, which helps with making sales to customers outside the US as well. So it's a good thing, but its disappointing that it came to this.

It also means a small group of factory jobs are moving to the US, so publicly it can appear as a win to the US administration. In reality there was quite a significant cost for very little gain (costs to the global economy, US diplomacy with CA/UK, domestic US competition, etc), and the profits are still ultimately going to Canadian and UK companies.

This just isn't a productive use of state resources.

They'd do more for the economy and working class by getting out of the way of business instead of generating even more convoluted backroom deals with megacorps like Boeing.

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