Anthony Furey: The Real Problem With Canada’s RCMP-China Contract

A police officer stands guard outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on March 10, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

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It’s of course good news that the federal Liberal government has put the brakes on a contract that a firm partially owned by the Chinese government had scored to work on sensitive RCMP technology. But we also need to ask what mindset allowed it to happen in the first place.