“There is a saying that if you can’t beat them, join them.”
That was the telling choice of words former Liberal cabinet minister Martin Cauchon settled on back in November 2011 in greeting the news that Huawei Canada, the subsidiary of an opaquely governed Chinese telecommunications conglomerate long encumbered by its reported links to China’s military and intelligence services, was beefing up its Ottawa operations thanks to a $6.5-million Ontario government grant.
Bested by NDP leader Tom Mulcair at the polls only a few months earlier in the Montreal riding of Outremont, Cauchon was by then already embarking on a lucrative career …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
