[bluGill]

There are many people in the world who lack tact, but yet have good ideas at times. It would be to your benefit to learn to get useful things from such people. (I believe that group includes everybody at some point in their lives)

[scj]

When we evaluate the bid, I'm sure we'll weigh previous occasions when Chinese firms placed spyware in hardware/firmware.

I'll point out we haven't rejected the advice.

What Canadians on this thread have rejected, is Yankee carpetbagging.