If there is a leadership race, I think there might be a little bit of a division. I can see it already.
However, what he did was he explained. He said “Hey, Rick, good news. I know you guys raised this issue. I wasn't aware of it, but the good news is that the piece of equipment that Sinclair is installing was installed across the country for the RCMP, but it doesn't hook into any of our computer systems, and there was an RCMP representative with that person every time, just to make sure they didn't monkey with the RCMP security equipment.”
There may be people out there who feel reassured by that, but I wasn't. No, I wasn't reassured.
I said to the minister, Minister Mendicino, “Let me get this straight. Minister Mendicino, you are saying that a Chinese state-owned company got access to the physical communication spaces where all that RCMP hardware is located across Canada. They may have been watched to make sure they weren't hooking into it or planting a bug, but they do have GPS on their phones. I think they could figure out exactly where the key RCMP communications equipment is if the Chinese government wanted to interfere with it. Do you think that is good news, Minister?”