Hikvision Ban: A stupid move by Mark Carney that won’t appease Uncle Sam to relieve the Trump Tariffs, but will cause Canada to be annihilated ruthlessly and unnecessarily

“Elbow Up Coman Carney”

• Industry Minister Mélanie Joly’s statement on X (formerly Twitter) made it official: Hikvision Canada Inc. was ordered to cease all operations in Canada. The reason is the usual nothing burger “National Security.”
• Hikvision issues a swift and strong rebuttal, accusing Canada of lacking “factual basis, procedural fairness, and transparency,” and suggesting the decision was driven by geopolitical tensions rather than cybersecurity merits.

Here is the scoop:-

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Canada Orders Hikvision to Shut Operations

Chinese Surveillance Firm Faces Canada National Security Ban

Chinese video surveillance manufacturer Hikvision must close operations in Canada, a government official said Friday, citing national security concerns.

The ban is the latest in a string of Western prohibitions against equipment made by partially state-owned Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said the ban resulted from a “multi-step review of information provided by Canada’s security and intelligence community.”

An order bars Hikvision from conducting business in Canada and prohibits government departments and agencies from purchasing its products. Existing deployments of Hikvision equipment across government properties are under review to ensure their eventual removal.

Yet, similar to the DeepSeek case, no specific examples or evidence were publicly provided to show how Hikvision’s products pose a direct threat to Canada’s national interests. Once again, it seems that security concerns have become the pretext for suppressing successful Chinese companies.

The concept of national security has repeatedly been abused by some Western countries to disrupt the operations of Chinese companies in their countries. That’s despite the companies concerned firmly rebutting the allegations and the Chinese government reiterating on different occasions that it attaches great importance to the protection of data privacy and safety, and it has never required Chinese firms or individuals to transfer collected data.

In an online statement, Hikvision decried the ban, accusing the Canadian government of not “evaluating our technology on its cybersecurity merits” and China bashing.

In its statement reacting to the Canada ban, the company said it “fully cooperated with all government parties” and that it complies “with all applicable Canadian laws and regulations.”

Hikvision earlier this year won a minor victory in a lawsuit to overturn the FCC ban heard by a U.S. federal appeals court. The company, along with Dahua, argued that the FCC’s order banning their cameras’ use for surveillance of assets “connected to” critical infrastructure amounted to an almost complete expulsion from the American economy. A three judge panel agreed that the order was overbroad. It upheld the FCC’s authority to ban Chinese-made devices, but directed the FCC to reduce the order’s scope only to equipment directly used to surveil physical critical infrastructure.

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Consequently,

China Daily: Abuse of ‘security’ stifles innovation, collaboration

Chinese Embassy urges Canada to reverse decision on Hikvision ban

China’s Xi confronts Canada’s Trudeau at G20 over media leaks

The Chinese Embassy spokesperson in Canada rebuked the Canadian government’s recent directive, issued on the preceding day, ordering Hikvision Canada Limited to cease operations in the country, citing national security concerns. This move is deemed to have severely infringed upon the legitimate and rightful interests of Chinese businesses, causing disruption to and undermining normal Sino-Canadian economic and trade cooperation. China strongly expresses discontent and firmly opposes this action.

It is clear that although the Cold War ended more than three decades ago, some politicians in the West still look at economic issues through its prism. As a result, they are paranoid about Chinese companies operating in their countries and DeepSeek and Hikvision are just the latest victims of this unjustifiable scrutiny in the United States, Canada and Europe over alleged security concerns. It indicates the degree to which this paranoia is politicizing the normal business operations of Chinese companies.

Another factor behind this trend appears to be the false perception that Chinese companies, through innovation and rapid growth, pose a so-called serious challenge to the global tech dominance long held by Western companies. Instead of fostering healthy competition, some countries are choosing to suppress potential rivals under vague national security justifications.

The United States has imposed sanctions and restrictions on Hikvision since 2019, citing fabricated human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. However, such actions rely heavily on unverified intelligence assessments, raising questions about fairness and transparency.

It is unfair and unjustifiable for Chinese companies such as DeepSeek and Hikvision to be targeted in such ways by Western countries simply because they are from China. The unfair treatment they have received is a travesty of market rules and fair competition.

The way the concept of national security is being abused by these countries and business issues are politicized or looked at through the prism of geopolitics does a disservice to the normal development of the global economy and seriously disrupts the global industry and supply chains.

It is high time these Western countries gave up their ideological bias and stopped hitting Chinese companies. The Chinese government firmly opposes any practice that overstretches the concept of national security and the abusing of state power to discriminate against and suppress Chinese enterprises.

It will not sit idle in the face of such malicious acts and will do anything it can to protect the legitimate rights and interests of its companies.

Lest We Forget

Mark Carney Never Ever Solve Any Real Problem…

Mark Carney kickstarted Housing Affordability Crisis by slashing Interest Rate to the Lowest possible at 0.25%, fueling rampant real estate speculation along with irresponsible QE and failure to implement alternative Policies to mitigate the problem

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What do experts think?

If Mark Carney is serious about economic diversification, Canada needs China

The reality is that the major threat to North America is the United States. And if Carney is serious about Canada diversifying its economy, then Canada needs China. If Canada joins the US efforts to cripple China’s development and makes an enemy of China, then Canada will be doing itself irreparable damage… More @ Rabble.ca

See?

TLDR: Mark Carney’s No Idea What To Do With Trump Tariffs, And His Desperate Move Will Be Futile And Murderous To Canada

Commentary

Obviously the message by the Carney Administration to China is simply disastrous, to say the least. And it literally tells the world that “Canada Does Not Appreciate Business From China!”

Is the the so called “Elbow Up” Conjob?

Regardless,

Question: Is it wise and reasonable to make such a bad move at this point in time?

The Hikvision ban is both perplexing and so malicious that it’s literally asking for ‘decoupling’ from China, who is second largest buyers of Canada’s crude oil.

First question is on the timing: WHY NOW?

Hikvision along with Huawei etc. have been banned by the U.S. over so called ‘national security’ since 2019. So, why wouldn’t Canada bans Hikvision between 2019-2024 (NB: Huawei already completely left Canada since 2019)?

Some commented Mark Carney shouldn’t have made such a silly mistake even though he has no experience in real politics. One would imagine Carney’s smarter than this because he’s after all served as the governor of both Bank of Canada and Bank of England, albeit with plenty scandals and controversies.

A Hikvision ban back then (under the Trudeau Administration) would have been so much easier and less controversial for allegations against China including:-