The concerns over Huawei technology in our sensitive networks is real. Canada has ample reason to ban it from participating in our projects going forward purely on national security grounds. But we now have even more incentive — doing the right thing for the big reasons is also the right thing for relatively petty ones. Banning Huawei will both bolster our national security and flip off the regime in Beijing. That’s a textbook win-win. What the hell are we waiting for?
It won’t help the farmers or free our imprisoned citizens, but nothing short of capitulation to a hostile dictatorship is going to achieve that in the short term. If that wasn’t true, we wouldn’t be asking U.S. President Donald Trump to pressure China on our behalf … but we are doing exactly that. In the meantime, we have every reason to fight back as best we can, and might as well start now. A boycott of Huawei products and a ban on the company’s participation in our future projects is a great place to start.
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