$22.4M over three rounds (from 2022)
Received Skills Development Fund grants in three consecutive rounds starting in 2022, totalling $22.4 million per Labour Ministry records; Ford announced the third, $10 million, at its St. Catharines yard on August 21, 2024. A client of Rubicon Strategy, owned by PC campaign manager Kory Teneycke. Its executives and directors have given over $55,000 to PC causes since 2021. In February 2026 Ford publicly urged Ottawa to give it a navy shipbuilding contract (The Trillium).
Sources: Labour minister has given PC donor-led companies 80% of for-profit businesses' Skills Development Funds — The Trillium, Premier Ford urging feds to give major shipbuilding contract to company his campaign manager's firm lobbies for — The Trillium