Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre today said that RCMP equipment contracts awarded by a federal department to a company with ties to the Chinese regime should be “banned and reversed.”
“Let’s put this into perspective: This is a contract for anti-eavesdropping technology to be used by our police force that was awarded to a company whose owner is charged with 21 potential espionage crimes in the United States,” Poilievre told reporters on Parliament Hill.
“It’s almost something you’d expect to be out of a spy novel, but characters in spy novels would never be that incompetent.”
A CBC News report published on Dec. 7 said 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 Hytera Communications. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) owns about 10 percent of Hytera Communications through an investment fund….