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National security "at no time" threatened after contract awarded to Sinclair Technologies: Mendocino

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Testifying before the Canadian House of Commons’ Industry Committee on Monday about federal contracts awarded to a firm with ties to the Chinese government, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said that “at no time” was Canada’s national security under threat.

Last month, reports emerged that Ontario-based Sinclair Technologies had been given 24 contracts since 2009, including work for the Department of Defence, the RCMP and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Three of the 24 contracts were awarded to the company since 2017, when Hytera Communication bought Sinclair’s parent company.

The Chinese government owns about 10 per cent of Hytera through an investment fund, Radio-Canada first reported on Dec. 7. Hytera is also blacklisted by the United States Federal Communications Commission over national security concerns.

Yet in 2021, the company was granted a $549,637 RCMP contract for a radio frequency filtering system – one that is valid until March 31, 2024.

Mendicino told the committee that an assessment by the RCMP found the technologies acquired from Sinclair did not pose a national security risk and that Sinclair did not have access to the RCMP’s radio frequencies, which are protected with end-to-end encryption.

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Canada-China relations, Chinese government, Hytera Communications
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