Toronto Star: The vast majority of it, $22.4 billion, went to Canadian companies, according to federal contract data. United States businesses come at a distant second place, with nearly $1.2 billion.
But that’s not the full picture; procurement data does not distinguish between a homegrown shop and the locally-incorporated subsidiary of an American corporation. This is how well-known U.S. brands such as defence contractor Lockheed Martin or tech giant Amazon, which has received about $49 million in contracts under Carney, sometimes show up in procurement data as Canadian companies…