I am not so sure of that especially since the majority of their production is overseas and done in partnership with other companies and . Air Canada has to be up there as well as the cbc.
Sorry they are number 2. after Pratt & Whitney:
http://www.taxpayer.com/main/news.php?news_id=2471Findings from On the Dole: Businesses, Lobbyists, and Industry Canada’s Subsidy Programs:
* Between fiscal years 1982 and 2005, $18.4-billion of assistance was authorized through 47,960 separate grants, contributions, loans, interest contributions and loan guarantees from 150 different programs. Of the total, $7.1-billion is considered repayable funding yet only $1.25-billion or 17.6% of that amount has been repaid. All said, less than 7% of the total subsidy portfolio has been recouped by Ottawa;
* Technology Partnerships Canada (TPC), which is Ottawa’s flagship corporate welfare program, has authorized $3-billion since its inception in 1996 and recovered only $169-million. This is a repayment record of less than 6%. Taxpayers were originally told every TPC investment dollar would return $1.74 in repayments from businesses;
* The Top 50 subsidy recipients have received a third of all money authorized or $5.9-billion;
* The Top 3 recipients have secured $2.6-billion in federal handouts. They are Pratt & Whitney ($1.5-billion authorized plus another $350-milion announced in Dec. 2006 that is not included in this report),
Bombardier ($745-million authorized plus another $350-million announced in Nov. 2006), and General Motors Canada ($360-million); and
* Industry Canada has 2,234 lobbyist registrations and is the most lobbied department in Ottawa.
