Canada is buying more aerospace and defence than its supply base can deliver. The hard part is knowing who actually can.
How many Canadian firms can actually do the work?
A directory counts everyone who says they do it. A prime counts who can prove it.
Choose a category above.
Our own estimates, refreshed quarterly. Method is in the PDF.
Canada is short of suppliers and short of people.
Same network behind both.
Market Entry
You sell into aerospace in Europe, the US or Asia and want to sell here. We find your route in.
See the route in →Supply Chain
Canadian content to place, and a shortlist that keeps failing qualification. We tell you who passes.
See the method →Talent
The engineer you need is employed, isn’t looking, and won’t answer a job ad. Give us a week and we’ll know who they are.
How we find them →Every engagement starts with a Needs Assessment.
Most of the value is in getting the question right.
We ran the channel. We didn’t study it.
Two F-35s came in low over a ridge outside Tucson. What stayed with me wasn’t the aircraft. It was everything behind it: every part had a supplier who passed an audit, and every supplier had people nobody outside the industry has heard of.
A decade in industrial and technical sales across distribution, safety and solutions. The last two years inside Canadian aerospace and defence, running a national distributor channel for a global interconnect manufacturer. Security assessed under the Controlled Goods Program in 2025.
Start with a
conversation.
Twenty minutes, no pitch. Tell us what you are trying to place, source or hire in Canada, and when you need it. If we are not right for it, we will point you at someone who is.
Prefer email? sales@defca.ca