> That's pretty much giving it (majority control) up for free, and the rest for very cheap.

It appears that Bombardier took some other financial aspects in consideration before they made that decision. I have no further knowledge, and that would be more than I'm willing to research for this discussion. Besides, this is tangential to the Embraer x Bombardier debate.

> but the E2 and the C-Series aren't really in the same segment

Indeed, but there's some overlap between the largest E2 and the smallest C-Series, while the E2 is much cheaper.