Canadian government suspends RCMP radio contract with Chinese-owned company

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in parliament during Question Period on Dec. 8.PATRICK DOYLE/Reuters The federal government has suspended a $550,000 contract to supply the RCMP with radio equipment made by a Canadian company with Chinese owners after a backlash over the deal. Sinclair Technologies, the supplier, is a division of Norsat International, a Vancouver company purchased by China’s Hytera Communications Corp. in 2017. Hytera was blacklisted by the U.S. government in 2021 over national security concerns. Back then, the Trudeau government approved the sale to Hytera without a formal extended national security review, a decision that was criticized in...