As others have said, the 9E management is not in the business of BS'ing. When things were bad, they were upfront about it... Just like the memo says, they are preparing for them, but it is not necessarily going to happen soon. It all depends what Daddy D wants to do. Previously, maintenance and training was gearing up for a CRJ-700 program but that has shifted now to the 170/175.
We operate at the request of the mothership.