Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Canada Awarded RCMP Contract to Firm with Ties to China

Canada - The federal government awarded a contract to provide and maintain RCMP communications equipment to a company with ties to the Chinese government, Radio-Canada has learned.

The contract has security experts raising concerns about potential Chinese access to RCMP communications and data.

On October 6, 2021, the federal government awarded Sinclair Technologies a contract worth $549,637 for a radio frequency (RF) filtering system. One of the system's purposes is to protect the RCMP's land-based radio communications from eavesdropping...

Conor Healy, a Canadian now based in Washington, said, "the risks include eavesdropping, collection of communications data and jamming or shutting down the radio communications system." more