CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FUNDING HUAWEI

   Canadian governments have provided millions in funding to Huawei and academic researchers collaborating with it, most of the grants designed to enhance the company’s 5G prowess, records indicate.
The support includes a $16-million handout from Ontario’s former Liberal government to Huawei in 2016, augmenting money the company said it would spend on enhancing 5G research in the province.
   A McGill University engineering professor is receiving $740,000 from a federal funding agency over five years for cutting-edge work with the firm on next-generation wireless.
   The McGill grant is among almost $7 million NSERC has provided researchers collaborating with Huawei since 2016-17. About $1.3 million in new grants were awarded just this fiscal year, after the arrest in Vancouver of a Huawei executive and alleged retaliatory actions by China. There is even an NSERC/Huawei research chair at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, costing the federal government $295,000 a year, and another reportedly being considered for Laval University.