Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) announced this month it is awarding two contracts worth a total of $169 million to an American company whose subsidiary a federal jury in the United States last year found legally responsible for the abuse of three Iraqi men at an American-run prison.

CACI is one of the latest American companies to win a major Canadian military contract despite Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promises to move away from deepening defence ties with the U.S.