Canada Pension Plan stocks got a huge boost thanks to the US/UK/France
Air Strikes on Syria

Nine of the world's top ten war industries went up thanks to the April 2018 air strikes. The CPP invests in all of these huge weapons companies (and many more).  Eight of the Global Top 10 will have Canadian subsidiaries at the CANSEC weapons bazaar in Ottawa (May 30-31, 2018)

See article by C.J. Atkins:  "Defense (sic) Contractors Saw $10 Billion Stock Boost Following Syria Airstrikes"

Table by Richard Sanders,
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
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http://coat.ncf.ca/research/CPP/US-Syria-2018.htm

CPP
Investments
(in millions
of Canadian
dollars)
(1)

The World's
Top 100
War
Industries
(2)
Boost in
stock value
since Trump
announced strike
(April 9, 2018)
Click the charts
for all the details
C
O
U
N
T
R
Y

Rank of the World's
Top 100
War
Industries

(2017) (2)

CANSEC
2018
Exhibitors
(3)

Corporations named
below are Canadian
subsidiaries of the
World's Top 100
War Industries
2017/
2018
2016/
2017
57 38 Lockheed Martin USA 1 Lockheed Martin Canada
118 50 Boeing USA 2 Boeing Canada Operations
33 9 BAE Systems UK 3 BAE Systems Canada
36 21 Raytheon USA 4  
10 36 Northrop Grumman USA 5
 
30 19 General Dynamics
(GD)
USA 6 GD Ordnance & Tactical Systems Cda

GD Land Systems-Cda

GD Mission Systems
11
 
Airbus Group Nether-
lands
7 Airbus Group Canada
29 19 L-3 Technologies USA 8 L-3 Canada Operations
12
 
Leonardo Italy 9 Leonardo DRS
24 15 Thales France 10 Thales Canada
360 207 Totals (in millions of Canadian dollars)

Sources:
(1) CPP Investment data comes form 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)

(2) The World's Top 100 War Industries are ranked by revenue from military contracts. (Compiled by Defense News Top 100 Defense Companies 2017
(Links to Defense News data on the "Top 100" during previous years, i.e., 1999 to 2016, can also be found at the above web page.)

(3) View the list of official CANSEC 2018 List of Exhibitors.
CANSEC 2018 (Canada's largest military trade show, Ottawa May 30-31), is organised by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries).

Graphics:
The text of the Ian Baker cartoon (top right) has been changed.  Originally it said, "I got this one free with a happy meal."


Here are some COAT Tables about CPP investments in war industries and other unsustainable corporations

These
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) tables detail
CPP investments in  2017/2018:

* $209 million in the Cruise Missiles and other Weapons used in the April 2018 Attack on Syria

*
$1.3 Billion in 36 of the World's Top-100 War Industries

* $451 Million in 14 Nuclear-Weapons Producers

*
$495 Million in 14 F35-Warplane Contractors

* Top Mining ($980 Million), Oil ($1.4 Billion), & Tobacco ($1.7 Billion) Companies


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


These COAT tables detail some of the 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.