The Canadian government quietly approved tens of millions of dollars in extra spending for a contract it held with the controversial American tech company Palantir.
Records from the IJF’s Open By Default database reveal the federal government made over a dozen amendments to a secret contract it held with Palantir’s Canadian subsidiary to provide services to an elite unit of the Canadian military.
Altogether, those amendments caused the value of the contract — which was internally flagged as “not for public disclosure” — to rise from $14.4 million when it was first signed in March 2020 to about $44.4 million as of October 2025.
