Introduction

There are over 36,000 companies in the Canadian Information

Technologies (IT) sector.
The large majority (over 32,000) fall within the software and computer
services industries.
The IT sector consists mainly of small companies, with over 31,000 of
them employing fewer than 10 people.
The number of large companies employing over 500 individuals is
relatively small, accounting for approximately 120 firms, including
subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations.
Manufacturing stands out as the sub-sector with larger companies.
In 2014, 14.5% of IT manufacturing companies had more than
50 employees, while across the whole IT sector this share was
only 3.1%.

Major IT Companies
Rank
2015

Rank
2014

Company Name

Web Address

City

BCE (wireless and Internet)

www.bce.ca

Verdun

TELUS (wireless and Internet)

www.telus.com

Vancouver

CGI Group

www.cgi.com

Montreal

Rogers Communications (wireless and

Internet)

www.rogers.com

Toronto

Celestica

www.celestica.com Toronto

BlackBerry

www.blackberry.co
Waterloo
m

Shaw Communications (Internet, MSP)

www.shaw.ca

11

OpenText

www.opentext.com Waterloo

10

Constellation Software

10

CAE

www.csisoftware.c
om
www.cae.com

Calgary

Toronto
Saint-Laurent

PoliticalStructure of Canadian Government

SOVERIGN

Queen Elizabeth II

Governor General David Johnston

PARLAMEN
T

Prime Minister
Justin Trudeu

House of
commons

Senate

Prime ministers
office

Supreme Courte of
Canada
Federal court of Canada
Tax court of Canada

Ministry

Departments

JUDICIARY

Agriculture and Agri-Food

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Canadian Heritage
Environmental Protection Review Canada
Finance Canada
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Health Canada
Human Rights Tribunal of Canada

Privy council
office

Innovation, Science and Economic Development

Canada
Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Justice Canada
National Defence
Natural Resources Canada
Western Economic Diversification Canada
Transport Canada
Treasury Board of Canada
Veterans Affairs

Innovation, Science and

eading parties in Canada Economic Development
Canada
HOUSE OF Conservative (165), new
COMMON democratic(101), liberal,
S
bloc, Quebecois(4),
Green(1), Independent(1)
Senate

Conservative (61), liberal (41),

Progressive conservative (1),

Other
Parties

Canadian action, Christian

heritage, First people,
Libertarian, Marijuana, Pirate,
Progressive Canadian, United,
Western block

Notable
historic
parties

Anti-confederate, Bloc
popular, Labour,

Minister is Navdeep Bains

Government promote advanced

technologies and services in Canada
Government purchase 2.5 billion $
per year of IT goods and services.
In budget 2010 government
announced 40 million $ for small and
medium sized enterprise innovation
commercialization program.
Government also promote private IT
sector innovation and support the
development of product and services
to meet the need of the consumer.