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.
While Sinclair Technologies is based in Ontario, the company has been controlled by Hytera Communications of Shenzen, China since 2017, when Hytera purchased Norsat International, Sinclair’s parent company.
Sinclair also supplies antennas to pretty much every Railway in Canada
Sinclair
Sinclair, Sinclair….where have I heard that name before? I’m sure it’s just a weird coincidence…
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That thought occurred to me as well. Common enough surname but one never knows if there’s a connection.
Maggie might know .
How does this keep happening? It seems as though someone in China figured out where the easy money is.
I don’t give a flying eff anymore. The Chinese seem to value hard work. I can work hard. And they won’t let woke nonsense into their country. They actively censor it and destroy it, and leftist Western moguls roll over when they do. I’ll go with Chinese masters over woke leftist masters … if I have to choose. Woke leftist masters want to destroy me and then kill me, and increasingly it looks like the woke leftists want to abuse my children. Chinese masters just want me to work hard and follow their rules. I pick Door # 2 … if I have to pick between these two.
Allow me to field this one on behalf of the lick-spittle Westerners:
“How would you like to be locked into a burning building???!!! Think of the children!!!”
Such is the nature of western discourse.
Ann, are you Chinese? If not, your Chinese masters will not value your hard work, though they will make you work hard for them. If you are Chinese, are you a member of their Communist Party (i.e. their ruling class)? If not, their ruling class will treat you better than they do non-Chinese people, but only as long as you do what they tell you and don’t complain.
I quite agree with your assessment Ann … however … you might want to consider the fact that the Chinese consider Western caucasians to be cockroaches. Vermin. Substandard humans. They wouldn’t have you in one of their sweat shops.
And when the ChiComs fully OCCUPY Canada … they will accelerate the MAID program for whites … and all those bothersome Muzzies.
The Chinese women in Vancouver sure consider Caucasian men to be up to standard. Like you wouldn’t believe. Also, Ann is right about zero tolerance for wokeness among the Chinese.
Or – stay with me here – we don’t pick but build a third road.
I don’t care how “un-woke” (read: not liking black people) China is. It’s still a Third-World dictatorship and sh–hole where the sons of sweat shops DON’T work hard but buy cars in Canada and laze about.
but maybe the woke masters and chineee taskmasters are one and the same
The equipment contract probably has a troubleshooting and maintenance piece.
This will give the Chinese access to our embassies on a permanent and routine basis.
A good parallel is how the Dominion voting machines were sold to the U.S. states. The government ceded the power to run the elections to Dominion techies who are the only people who understand the software. The States signed contracts that specifically forbid anyone but Dominion to look at the code.
“The States signed contracts that specifically forbid anyone but Dominion to look at the code.”
-that’s a western thing, the kinda thing that Apple, Tesla and John Deer do.
Chinese companies have embraced open-source code, for the most part, but one does, like with Android, have to check for proprietary blobs, but if you go with Lineage or Graphene, you can get phone OSs without the blobs.
The peoples reps that signed such contracts are a bigger enemy than the hardware suppliers could ever dream of being.
Let me guess, theTurd had “no knowledge whatsoever”.
The fact is, China is cranking out cost-effective systems for all kinds of things, from RF tech to small manufacturing setups, and the ability to do so in the west has been almost entirely eliminated by corruption and regulatory prohibitions, but I repeat myself.
My next purchase will be a FNIRSI Geiger-counter. Hantek has some good offerings, and some of the best entrepreneurs in the west are forced to build their stuff there, even with the risk of IP theft, again because of corrupt legislators.
The level of corruption in the west is off the scale compared to China. See the TinaSA and TinyVNA.
Someone in Beijing has some pictures of Trudeau.
Word around the campfire is that Trudeau’s riding association received 70 grand from the CCP for the last election.
It has to come through individuals – $3,300 max each split between party and riding association. Fortunately for Turdeau that’s a small fraction of Chinese spies in Canada.
How do you say Canada is a vassal state without saying that Canada is a vassal state?
We’ve been buying trillions worth of Chinese garbage the last quarter century. And the Chicoms are using the proceeds to engineer a slow and steady stealthy takeover of both the US and Canada – thousands of actions just like this are probably occurring every single day just under the radar. No actual warfare is necessary for the Chicoms to takeover thanks to crooked pols like “10% for the Big Guy” Dementia Joe and Castro Jr. We’ll just wake up one day and Chairman Xi Jr will be on the Telly announcing he’s in charge and then it’s off to the extermination camps.
Sox has watched the Biden Crime Family closely, and knows where the money comes from.
This keeps happening because you can’t find a company anymore that doesn’t have some tie to china.
Yup. The regulatory burden in the west is such that it is impossible to supply goods to the market, they can only be supplied for gov’t contracts who don’t mind paying $50 for a screw. Fluke, Tektronix, etc, priced way out of the common man’s reach, whereas companies like Uni-T, Hantek, FNIRSI, Owon can supply goods that are easily good enough for the common man right outta the box, and are hackable. Only in the west are people so freakin’ stupid that if their heater doesn’t have tip-over protection, they’ll kill themselves with it, and then sue, and some judge will virtue-signal, and hold the manufacturer liable for the idiocy of the user.
Only in the west were warning labels to prevent people from asphyxiating with a freakin’ plastic bag implemented.
Canada Chinese Business Council, that’s how.
Before I forget. Remember that Hydro Quebec employee arrested for stealing secrets for China some time ago? Out on $200,000 financial guarantees.
Judge is satisfied he wasn’t a flight risk and ordered him to have his cell phone with him at all times and his geo location turned on.
Poor fella.
That guy is more likely a guy who refused to spy for China, and is getting the bum’s rush for not toeing the RCMP party line.
Heh, a 4000 mAh 45 amp discharge rate battery for 6 bucks in the states, that a man uses to…***gasp***…rebuild a battery pack
In Canada, half that performanc costs around $20, but Canadians are scared of batteries, scared to ride a bus…and scared of plastic bags. Expecting people that are so scared of stuff to actually stand up for their rights is not sane.
There is an ahole here who actually said “I wouldn’t let someone charge one of them in my garage.” I’m guessing he’s an Apple user, but I don’t have to guess that he’s a pusswillow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42d10bhs304
If you don’t mind.. i have been buying various double a and triple a rechargeble batteries on amazon for wireless mouse and keyboard, and the are very disappointing.. do you have any advice to offer a poor old soul
Just some generalities:
NiMH is better than NiCd (for indoor use).
Li-ion is better than NiMH, but more expensive, and harder to find in AAA or AA sizes.
NiMH and NiCd cells only give you 1.2V or so fully charged, not the 1.5 you can expect from alkaline non-rechargeables.
The smaller the battery, the less the capacity, so AA will always be better than AAA.
All I can really suggest is research what you buy, and be very, very wary of shills. Reading 5 pages of reviews, looking at all the critical reviews, and parsing them for people who don’t know what the product should be able to do are good practices.
“How does this keep happening?”
Well, it starts off w/ your basic stupid politician who gets elected by a stupid populace. Said politician gets onna committee or 3 because he/she/it provided proper oral favours to their boss. Said politician, along w/ the balance of said committee, doesn’t know shit from shinola because they are all patronage appointments. As such, they hire external consultants who are in cahoots w/ the ChiComs, recommendations are made, contacts are established, contracts signed, QED.
Tell me, who should we procure from?
Seimens in Germany? South Korea? Japan?
How much should we pay?
Is it worth it to pay 5x more from Japan, or only 3x more from South Korea, who will outsource half the contract to China anyway?
There is no fixing this.
“Tell me, who should we procure from?”
Build it ourselves.
*Gasp!!!* what? Are you CRAZY!!?? Or just dumber than Tim Cook?
What about the environmental regulations? OSHA? Labor Relations Board? EEOC? Zoning codes? What about the ADA?? Ohhhhhhhh mommmmmaaaaaa … your factory would take 5-years to open, never make a profit … then go bankrupt.
Yes, there is.
Falling back to China only ensures more lockdowns and illegal police surveillance down the road.
Chicomms getting desperate after the arrest of the only (eye roll) mole in the RCMP?
https://nationalpost.com/news/mounties-lay-secrets-law-charges-against-one-of-their-own
While China was mentioned, the receiver of the information was not named. High probability of it being the real enemy – the Freedom Convoy
Here’s a thought. Don’t allow Chinese owned companies to bid.
This company is 10% owned by the CCP, and 90% by others. Perhaps we should not allow any CCP member ownership? That way, one CCP member can buy one share and ruin our procurement.
In many states, encrypted comm by cops is illegal unless it’s mission critical.
Retarded Canadians are into this kinda secrecy on the part of our owners.
Oh, and in Canada, encrypted comm is illegal for us peons, in all circumstances. Retarded Canadians like this too, because we have the RCMP and the Turd to protect us. These are the same retarded Canadians that believe a gun can be illegal.
These are the Canadians that have made our bed, our grave.
FOAD.
“In many states, encrypted comm by cops is illegal …”
Really?
Yep, unless its mission critical. And the little guys like me are allowed to use encrypted radio in many states, to boot. Canada, OTOH, is a BS police state, where the little guy can’t use encryption, and the cops always do.
Trudeau’s bought and paid for media announce that Trudeau’s bought and paid for FNs are opposed to the evil Albertans and Saskatchewaners. I’m shocked – well, not really. I see more “reparations” on the horizon for these tribes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzsM4fb6feI
…and OJ chimes in with his 2 minutes hate.
Un-effin-real.
OMG LOL! Many years ago, I had an interview at Sinclair for a technical documentation position. The interviewer asked “Do you like antennas?” I responded with the typical interview bullshit about being interested in and enjoying working with technology, yadda yadda. “No,” the interviewer interjected: “Do you like antennas? To work here, you need to really, really like antennas.”
Didn’t hear back from them and figured “bullet dodged”.
I don’t know. Looked up the management of Sinclair Technologies and they could all be White Supremacists.
https://www.sinctech.com/
It’s hard for our media to connect the dots.
Justin Trudeau, raised in the home of a known Soviet agent and KGB resource.
Justin Trudeau, several well-publicized public statements early in political career where he idolized Chinese communism.
Canada, now seen to be infiltrated by Chinese communism.
It’s so difficult, but our elites have appointed some of the best and brightest to look into this. It’s no doubt Russian collusion combined with white supremacy, homophobia, and aversion to transgenderism. Also climate change plays a role. More people need to purchase electric vehicles and perhaps consider another booster and flu shot. Get the whole set.
We need to bronze this comment.
The thing is, the idiot doesn’t see anything wrong with that.
Not that he knows anything else about anything.
While China was mentioned, the receiver of the information was not named. High probability of it being the real enemy – the Freedom Convoy
HiHo can write anything X10 that is pro Chinah but heaven help you if you call out the state of the Canadian post-nation.
Hey, is that B.A. Ruperts-
Apparently, Justin is livid over this.
This was totally unexpected!
He might have to take a personal month off.
Lachine rapids — who’s laughing now?