00:00 And news overseas, the relationship between the Dragon Nation and Maple Leaf Country is frosty as it is.
00:06 Expect it not to thaw anytime soon with Canada's latest move to prohibit the ever-popular Chinese messaging app WeChat,
00:14 as well as the Russia's cybersecurity and antivirus solutions Kaspersky of all government smartphones and communication devices.
00:22 Treasury Board Chief Anita Anand said the nation's chief information officer has determined
00:28 that the aforementioned apps present an unacceptably high risk to privacy and security.
00:34 While no data breaches have been discovered as of yet, the platform's data collection method provide considerable access to a device's contents, Anand said.
00:44 China, for its part, pushed back on Canada's claim and said the move was arbitrary and done without the benefit of actual evidence and scientific rationalization.
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