The firm employs some 3,600 people in a high skills-retention environment. Annual sales for the company will soon nudge the half billion dollar mark. The recent INS champion, Honeywell's defence systems division, has nowhere near the Canadian presence of Litton. Litton has none. Perhaps it was the attractiveness of Honeywell's offer to transfer one of their RLG products to Canada.
Someone seems to think so.
The rumor has spread. Canada will spend. For foreign owned firms already located in Canada, the quest for respectability as a Canadian corporate citizen has reached a new intensity. The playing field is rocking and rolling, pitching and heaving, tilting every which way. Nobody knows the rules.