Canada Pension Plan Investments in
Top Mining, Oil & Tobacco Companies
 
Rank Big Mining:
Canada's Largest
Mining Companies		 CPP
Investments
(in millions of $Cdn)
2016 2017
1.   Agrium 122 101
2.   Barrick Gold 60 188
3.   Suncor 423 306
4.   Syncrude - -
5.   Teck  41 85
6.   PotashCorp  116 101
7.   Canadian Oil Sands - -
8.   Kinross Gold 60 42
9.   GoldCorp 114 102
10.   First Quantum 34 57
    Total (in millions of Canadian dollars)  970 982

 

Rank Big Oil:
Canada's Largest
Oil Companies		 CPP
Investments
(in millions of $Cdn)
2016 2017
1.   Suncor Energy 423 306
2.   Canadian Natural Resources 350 377
3.   EnCana Corporation 19 56
4.   Husky Energy 15 15
5.   Enbridge 357 609
6.   Cenovus Energy 82 75
7.   Talisman Energy - -
8.   Nexen - -
9.   Syncrude - -
10.   Irving Oil - -
    Total (in millions of Canadian dollars) 1,246 1,438

 

Rank

Big Tobacco:
World's Largest
Tobacco Companies

CPP
Investments
(in millions of $Cdn)
2016 2017
1.   Imperial Tobacco Group* 67 92
2.   Philip Morris International 339 551
3.   British American Tobacco** 121 253
4.   Japan Tobacco 204 167
5.   Altria Group 277 446
6.   Reynolds American 76 180
7.   ITC 4 3
8.   Gudang Garam Tbk PT 6 11
9.   KT&G 12 6
  Total (in millions of Canadian dollars) 1,106 1,709
 
Notes:
* CPP investment is in Imperial Tobacco Group's parent company,
i.e., Imperial Brands
** Includes a CPP investment of $5 million in a British American Tobacco
subsidiary, i.e., British American Tobacco Malaysia
 
Sources:
 (1) CPP Investments data comes from the
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
 Foreign Public Equity Holding as of March 31, 2016
(Data released May 2016)

Canadian Public Equity Holding as of March 31, 2016
(Data released May 2016)

Foreign Public Equity Holdings as of March 31, 2017
(Data released May 2017)

Table prepared by Richard Sanders for a
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade  slide show. 
Updated May 24, 2017.
 

Other COAT Tables about the CPP

Here are some Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
tables detailing CPP investments in  2017:

* $1.4 Billion in 41 of the World's Top-100 War Industries

* $451 Million in 14 Nuclear-Weapons Producers

* $495 Million in 14 F35-Warplane Contractors

* $8.38 Billion in the "World's 20 Worst Companies"


COAT tables on CPP's 2016 investments:

* $11 Billion in banks making US$313 billion available to 26 nuclear-bomb makers

* $5.5 Billion in firms supporting Israeli Apartheid

* $6.8 Billion in banks making US$18.7 Billion available to 7 cluster-bomb makers.