A government committee heard from witnesses that universities across Canada have partnered with Chinese agencies and would continue to do so unless Parliament mandates educational institutes to disclose these relationships.
Lawyer James Hinton, associate professor at Western University and senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation of Waterloo, Ontario, who appeared as a witness at the June 20 meeting of the House of Commons Science Committee, said the federal government has been “complicit” in allowing Canadian academic research to be compromised, specifically by China’s Huawei Technologies, which is allegedly tied to the Chinese military, according to Blacklock’s Reporter on June 21….