Ottawa Orders Chinese Company Hikvision to Cease Canadian Operations

A minister said security and intelligence officials found that allowing the company to stay in Canada would injure the country’s national security.

The Hikvision headquarters in Hangzhou, in east China's Zhejiang province, in a file photo.STR/AFP via Getty Images

The Canadian government has ordered Chinese surveillance camera maker Hikvision to stop operating in Canada, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said on Friday.

In a statement, Joly said the government ordered Hikvision Canada Inc. to “cease all operations in Canada and close its Canadian business” after conducting a national security review under the Investment Canada Act.