CANADIAN MULTINATIONALS

2016 Revenue : CA $ 2.1bn

In 2016 , MacDonald , Dettwiler And Associates Ltd collected $ 2.1bn in revenue , the same amount from the previous year . In that time period , the company posted $ 211mn in operating revenue or the equivalent of $ 5.78 per share . The company provides operational solutions from robotic surgery research to commercial satellites throughout the United States and Canada , and most notably , it maintains contracts with the United States Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ). The company was founded in 1969 in Canada , and in February 2017 , it announced a definitive merger with the satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe for US $ 2.4bn ( CA $ 2bn ).

2016 Revenue : CA $ 2.2bn

In the four quarters ending in August 2016 , BlackBerry Limited posted revenues of US $ 1.75bn or CA $ 2.2bn . The fourth quarter of that period represented 89 % growth over the same quarter in the previous year , and the company enjoyed a gross profit margin of 29 % based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ( GAAP ). Most famous to consumers for its phones , the company specialises in enterprise software and the Internet of things . The multinational telecom company was founded in 1984 in Waterloo , Ontario under the name of Research in Motion Limited by an engineering student who was still in college at the time , and it was the first wireless data technology developer in North America . 31