Opposition MPs raise concerns around procurement policies, security oversight following cancelled $6.8-million standing offer with Chinese company Nuctech

The purpose of the standing offer was to replace Global Affairs Canada’s older, conveyer-style parcel x-ray machines currently in use at Canadian embassies worldwide. NDP MP Matthew Green says he was 'astounded that we didn’t have a higher security clearance protocol on, particularly, technology relating to our foreign embassies and our missions abroad.'

Pierre Paul-Hus, Conservative MP for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, Que., pictured at a press conference on Nov. 26, 2020. Mr. Paul-Hus says 'something fell through the cracks, absolutely,' in regards to the federal government's standing offer made with partially state-owned Chinese security company Nuctech for the installation and operation of X-ray scanners in Canadian embassies.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

January 11, 2021

Opposition MPs continue to question why the federal government’s security apparatus did not play a larger role throughout the procurement process following the recent cancellation of a standing offer with partially state-owned Chinese security company Nuctech for the installation and operation of ...

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