It's not so much about politics as process. Canada and the U.S. have a bilateral acceptance process, whereby airworthiness in one country is accepted in the ot

It's not so much about politics as process. Canada and the U.S. have a bilateral acceptance process, whereby airworthiness in one country is accepted in the other. Since the FAA was the certifying authority in this case, the default position would be to trust their process until evidence suggested otherwise. https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilateral_agreements/baa_basa_listing/media/CanadaEA.pdf https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilatera...