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While corporate welfare is lining the pockets of Canadian aerospace firms and even rural pizzerias, many of the country’s top employers have not collected a cent, says a new analysis by the Fraser Institute.

“You can’t blame the companies; if politicians are silly enough to offer up taxpayer cash, those companies will seek it and hire the lobbyists to get it,” said Mark Milke, a senior fellow at the institute.

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Tuesday’s 15-page report is his sixth on corporate welfare.

Since 1961, Industry Canada and its successors have doled out an inflation-adjusted $22-billion in grants, loans and various “contributions” to private companies, based on Access to Information requests filed by Fraser Institute researchers.

All four of the top recipients were aerospace firms.

Pratt & Whitney Canada, the Longueil, Que.-based aircraft engine manufacturer, received 75 disbursements totaling $3.3 billion.