Official Opposition calls for a ministerial order to advise provinces and universities against research partnerships with Beijing’s military
Despite these warnings, Mr. Chong noted, the government allowed Chinese military scientists access to Canada’s top-secret infectious microbiology laboratory in Winnipeg, and awarded a company owned by a Chinese state-owned enterprise a contract to supply the RCMP with telecom equipment.
Canadian high-tech billionaire Jim Balsillie, co-founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators and former chair and chief executive of Research in Motion, now known as BlackBerry, said it is incumbent upon the federal government to lay out clear rules against academic research with China’s military. Along with public Canadian universities, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council , a federal funding agency, has been contributing to projects conducted with Chinese military scientists.
But that hasn’t deterred Canadian universities from collaborating with China. Despite the new security rules, none of the 10 universities involved in the most projects with NUDT would, when asked by The Globe, commit to barring their academics from doing further research with the Chinese military university.
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