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House Hansard - 143

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 2:26:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this Liberal government awarded a contract to a company with ties to China to secure counterespionage technology. The problem is that the owner of that company has been charged in the United States with 21 espionage related crimes. How can the government hire a company that has been criminally charged with espionage to protect our police forces from espionage?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 2:27:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that answer was encrypted with bureaucratese. Maybe that would be a better way to protect our internal communications, but instead the government came up with a different plan. What it has done is given a contract to a company that is supposed to protect the RCMP from eavesdropping. That company is owned by another company that is charged with 21 espionage offences in the United States of America. How on God's green earth did the government think it was a good idea to give a company accused of espionage control of our anti-espionage technology?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Mrs. Julie Vignola (Beauport—Limoilou, BQ)
  • Dec/7/22 2:43:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in light of China's political interference in political party financing, the espionage at Hydro-Québec, the Winnipeg laboratory and the secret police stations, we would have thought that the RCMP would have started monitoring Chinese operations in Canada, but no, China has been monitoring RCMP operations. The company has been charged with 21 espionage offences in the United States and the government did not even conduct a security check. The contract could have been awarded to a company in Boucherville, but no. It was given to China instead of Quebec. Seriously, are they doing this on purpose?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 2:44:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it has not even been two weeks since the government announced its about-face on China in its Indo-Pacific strategy, and we have learned that the Liberals awarded a contract for RCMP communications equipment to a company with ties to the government in Beijing. Sinclair Technologies was awarded the contract for a system meant to protect the RCMP's land-based communications from eavesdropping. Here is the problem. Sinclair Technologies' parent company is owned, in part, by the Chinese government, and it is charged with 21 espionage offences. There is nothing to review. Will the government terminate this contract today, yes or no?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 2:47:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, is there any country in the world where the prime minister allows the Chinese communist regime to have access to its secrets? I know of one: Canada. Two years ago, the Prime Minister awarded a contract to Nuctech, a company with ties to the Chinese communist regime. It was hired to install systems in our embassies around the world. Luckily, this contract was cancelled. Today, we learned that the Prime Minister gave a contract to a company that has been charged with 21 counts of espionage. It was hired to install equipment in the RCMP's telecommunications system, where the devices must be as secret as possible. Even the Prime Minister's security detail uses this system. Why does the Prime Minister give contracts to the Chinese communist regime?
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