Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it is “disconcerting” that a federal department awarded a contract to provide and maintain RCMP communications equipment to a company known to have ties with the Chinese regime.
Trudeau was referring to a CBC News report published on Dec.7 saying that in October 2021 the federal government awarded a contract worth nearly $550,000 to Sinclair Technologies, an Ontario-based company controlled by China-based company Hytera Communications.
“I find it disconcerting that while parts of the government security agencies were advising us, as a government, and as Canadians, that we have to be very careful about foreign interference in our institutions—in our structures, in the way we do business and keep Canadians safe—that other parts of the civil service were signing contracts that have questionable levels of security for our operations and our national security institutions like the RCMP,” Trudeau told reporters while speaking at a press conference in Montreal on Dec. 7….