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As the federal government greenlit the sale of two Canadian companies operating in the sensitive areas of satellite and laser technologies to Chinese firms in 2017, U.S. lawmakers urged Ottawa to be “more vigilant” when it comes to national security issues involving the Chinese Communist Party.
Later, in 2019, as most of Canada’s partners in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance blocked China’s Huawei from their 5G networks while Ottawa insisted there was no need to do so, then-U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo threatened that his country would hold back intelligence sharing with any partner that kept Huawei in its critical infrastructure….