The federal government is reviewing an RCMP equipment contract with a company that has ties to China's government, the prime minister said Wednesday.
Radio-Canada reports that the federal Procurement Department awarded a $549,637 contract to Ontario-based Sinclair Technologies last year to build and maintain a radio frequency filtering system for the Mounties.
A Public Services and Procurement Canada spokesperson said the department did not take security concerns and Sinclair's ownership into consideration during the bidding process, Radio-Canada reported. "It is astonishing to me that Justin Trudeau's contracting system would have allowed a company whose parent owner in the United States is charged with 21 different espionage offences, to install technology on our police force's system in order to block espionage," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in a rare exchange with the press outside the House of Commons Wednesday.
"One of the reasons why we put in place a process that looks at the potential opportunities, or vectors, for foreign interference in the context of contracts is to secure Canadian national interest, to secure our national security." "We need to remain more vigilant to prevent things like that, understand the why and how something can happen," he said outside of the Liberal caucus meeting.
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