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House Hansard - 144

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 8, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 144 - Dec/8/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Dec/8/22 2:25:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the contract the government awarded to Sinclair Technologies, which is partly owned by Chinese interests accused of espionage, is extremely troubling. We know that the contract was just cancelled, but the government still gave a Chinese government-owned company access to the RCMP's classified frequencies. The contract was for a filtering system that ensures the confidentiality of the communications of the Prime Minister and foreign heads of state visiting Canada. No one thought any security checks were in order. Can the Prime Minister explain this?
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Context: House Hansard - 144 - Dec/8/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Dec/8/22 2:26:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about those measures. The federal government has a Crown corporation whose mandate is to monitor communications security. It is called the CSE, the Communications Security Establishment. Nobody in government thought to ask CSE experts to assess the national security risk associated with this contract, which gave a company accused of espionage in the U.S. access to the RCMP's secret frequencies. Nobody in government thought to ask the CSE to look into this. What is the Prime Minister's explanation for that?
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