{"id":64130,"date":"2020-02-21T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64130"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:13","slug":"burton-why-canada-cant-let-huawei-build-a-5g-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/burton-why-canada-cant-let-huawei-build-a-5g-network\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: Why Canada can&#8217;t let Huawei build a 5G network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton,\u00a0Associate Professor in Political Science at Brock University, had a piece recently published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/columnists\/burton-why-canada-cant-let-huawei-build-a-5g-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Citizen<\/a>\u00a0 about the moral implications of allowing Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies access to Canada\u2019s 5G installations.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Canada\u2019s Big Three telecom companies aren\u2019t waiting for the federal government\u2019s ever-delayed Huawei security review. Telus has announced it will forge ahead and install Huawei 5G technology \u2014 damn the consequences. Bell will presumably not be far behind, as Rogers has already started to implement 5G service in four Canadian cities using Ericsson technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For the federal government, the Huawei decision clock is running out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Feb. 13, the U.S. government released a new indictment against Huawei and its CFO, Meng Wanzhou, depicting a corporate culture so corrupt that, besides extensive theft of intellectual property and propriety manufacturing processes by Huawei\u2019s own espionage agents, there is even an incentive scheme rewarding employees who upload stolen materials to an encrypted e-mail address, or sneak into rivals\u2019 labs and steal devices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The indictment details Huawei\u2019s mendacity, betrayal of commitments and half-hearted attempts to cover it all up by blaming \u201crogue employees.\u201d It also cites Huawei\u2019s provision of surveillance technology to Iran, which uses it to monitor, identify and detain protesters (presumably the same kit used against the Xinjiang Uyghurs, and coming soon to Hong Kong and the rest of China).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/columnists\/burton-why-canada-cant-let-huawei-build-a-5g-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, Associate Professor in Political Science at Brock University, had a piece recently published in the Ottawa Citizen  about the moral implications of allowing Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies to access Canada\u2019s 5G installations.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[4008,5694,42,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64134,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64130\/revisions\/64134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}