RCMP contract awarded to firm reportedly tied to China "disconcerting," Trudeau says

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a report that federal civil servants awarded an RCMP contract for communications equipment to a company with Chinese government ties is “disconcerting.”

The prime minister made the comments to reporters in Montreal on Wednesday after Radio-Canada published a story on how the federal government awarded a contract to an Ontario-based company whose parent company is Hytera Communications. That firm is blacklisted over national security concerns by the United States Federal Communications Commission.

“I find it disconcerting that while parts of the government’s security agencies were advising us as a government, and as Canadians, that we have to be very careful about foreign interference … that other parts of the civil service were signing contracts that have questionable levels of security for our operations and our national security institutions, like the RCMP,” Trudeau said.

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