Experts from Canada, the United States, and New Zealand warned of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using companies such as Huawei to infiltrate and control key sector in Western countries, a House of Commons committee heard on Monday. Carolyn Bartholomew, chair of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, told the House Special Committee on Canada-China Relations that while Western governments use technology from Chinese companies in building smart cities, they are likely giving the CCP and its affiliated companies access “directly or indirectly into things like controlling traffic, controlling water supplies,” which could be used against these countries. During the hearing, Bartholomew referred to a report by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on April 17 that said the Netherlands’ largest mobile telecommunications company KPN had commissioned the Capgemini consultancy firm in 2010 to conduct an internal investigation on the security of using the Huawei core network. The Capgemini …