iaink

Magna perhaps

Judy in Calgary

Bata is the largest shoe company in the world.

oceanMDX

Yes, thanks for the correction (Magna International ... not Magnus International... I can't believe I wrote that).... I should have mentioned Linamar instead!

Judy in Calgary

Remind me why you're on your way to Canada. After all this criticism, I've forgotten.

iaink

The engineers working on them are Canadian, the raw materials going into them are canadian, many of the subcomponents are canadian sourced, the labour going into making them is Canadian... I would say a canadian built car is more canadian than the average US built car is American. Up to 20% of the average US built car is actually sourced in Canada as I recall.

Its like saying Lotus (Malasian owned) and Rolls Royce (German) or Bentley(German) are not British.

GM, the worlds largest auto maker was part founded by a Canadian, Robert McLauglin with two of his sons (the third started "Canada Dry"), Oshawa is still home of GMs most productive North American Facility. Before you badmouth canadian industry, perhaps you should learn something about it.

Just because you are not aware of the global impact of certain canadian technology companies, that does not mean it does not exist, it just means you are ignorant.

iaink

Are they still manufacturing in Canada? The plant in Batawa (down the road from me) shut several years ago now, all that remains is a small distribution facility for outsourced products in Trenton. Thomas Bata (or his family anyway) still spends a bit of time each year at his house in this area as far as I know though. Hes an interesting guy.

oceanMDX

I might mention that in some areas, even though it involves natural resources... Canadian technology is a world leader. Canada is the world-leader in oil sands technology and in some other mining related technology. We have some copper mines where the ore is lower grade that the tailings (waste rock) at some of Chile's copper mines.... and we can still make money from such low-grade mines.... and it's all because our technology is superior.

Madmac

..and the shoe museum in Toronto reflects that fact.

Souvenir

Hardly. Bombardier is, I believe, the world's largest civil aircraft manufacturer after Boeing and Airbus (and last time I looked was the leading employer in Northern Ireland). Oh, it's also the world's largest manufacturer of railway equipment.

Here are some other unremarkable Canadian words: Nortel, IMAX, the Blackberry.......

Judy in Calgary

I don't know how we're defining a given company's corporate home. Although I understand Bata has outsourced its manufacturing to Third World countries, I also understand that its headquarters still are in Ontario. In that sense I'm notching it up as a Canadian company.

Craftybanshee

Sorry to go off at a tangent but I have a question about dogs

Why do they like to stick their heads out of fast moving car windows? No this isn't a joke

iaink

Because they can? Dunno. Did someone in the car fart? I guess I'd want to do something to clear my nose if i used my tongue as toilet paper too.

Isnt google great

"Most veterinarians suspect that it's because of their incredible sense of smell. With so many scents wafting through the air at those speeds, it's wonderful as a dog to be able to take it all in"

Souvenir

Steady on there. Which other country, apart from Venezuela, mines oil sands?

Craftybanshee

LOL!

oceanMDX

Russia and Venezuela both have large oil sands deposits... but the technology to exploit this large and important resource was developed primarily in Canada.