The White House official spearheading the U.S. campaign to bar Huawei Technologies from Western 5G networks shared highly classified information with Canadian officials Monday about cyber-risks from the Chinese telecom’s gear, including “backdoors” that compromise national security and user data, sources involved in the Ottawa talks say.
Robert Blair, deputy White House chief of staff and President Donald Trump’s special representative for international telecommunications, met with Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and senior officials from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), National Defence, Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the departments of Innovation and foreign affairs.
He warned that Canada would lose access to high-level U.S. intelligence if Ottawa decides to allow Huawei equipment in next-generation 5G networks.
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