"Chinese firm's Canadian contracts raise security fears"
I was watching Canadian news tonight and saw a report about the above and wondered if other DUers had heard anything about this and what to make of it.
I haven't heard of Van Cleave before and the description of her as "top spy-catcher for the Bush administration" rang odd. Odder yet that she is busting Harper over this, given Bush/Harper affinity.
Thoughts?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/15/pol-weston-huawei-china-telecom-security-canada.html
The former head of U.S. counter-espionage says the Harper government is putting North American security at risk by allowing a giant Chinese technology company to participate in major Canadian telecommunications projects.
In an exclusive interview in Washington, Michelle K. Van Cleave told CBC News the involvement of Huawei Technologies in Canadian telecom networks risks turning the information highway into a freeway for Chinese espionage against both the U.S. and Canada.
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The Harper government's own Department of Public Safety warned more than a year ago that Canada's telecommunications network is too important to be left to foreign companies.
In a secret memo written in 2011 and obtained under the Access to Information Act, a senior public safety official says "the security and intelligence community" believes that throwing open the Canadian telecom market to foreign companies "would pose a considerable risk to public safety and national security."
