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According to security experts, Canada has no choice but to exclude Huawei from 5G mobile networks.

by Jigyasa Prashar
November 16, 2021
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As the Liberal administration prepares to unveil its policy on next-generation mobile networks, worldwide security experts forecast that Huawei Technologies will be left out of the long-awaited blueprint. As further and further devices connect to the internet and innovations such as virtual reality, immersive gaming, and driverless vehicles arise, the development of 5G, or fifth-generation, networks will give users apace Internet connections and supply massive data capacity to meet inappeasable demand. The Conservatives have long pressured the Liberals to deny Huawei a part in creating Canada’s 5G infrastructure, claiming that doing so would make it easier for Beijing to eavesdrop on Canadians.
Some believe Huawei’s participation will give it access to a wealth of digital data about how, when, and where Canadians use internet-connected devices. As a result, Chinese security services could force the corporation to hand up personal data, according to the proposition. The fact that China’s National Intelligence Law states that Chinese organizations and citizens must support, help, and cooperate with authorized intelligence activity raises these issues. Huawei claims to be a fiercely autonomous corporation that doesn’t conduct espionage on behalf of anyone, including Beijing. Huawei Canada’s vice-president of corporate relations, Alykhan Velshi, remarked, “We sell in 180 countries across the world. “We must abide by the laws of each of those nations. “And if we betrayed the trust, we would be limited to only dealing in one country.
” Regardless of whether Huawei is a genuine security threat, the concerns have led to a widespread belief that countries can not go to take a chance on a telecommunications company backed by Beijing, according to Wesley Wark, an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa and an elderly fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. “The corporation is simply too tightly tied with the Chinese leadership in terms of perception to allow western states to do anything different,” Wark added. “They do have other options,” says the narrator.
He also underlines that the majority of Huawei’s workers in Canada engage in exploration and development as well as marketing products other than telecom network equipment. “The reality is that in Canada, we’ve got a diversified business,” Velshi added. “That is why, in Canada, we vend smartphones, earbuds, and computers.
While the Huawei issue has received a lot of attention, the government’s 5G examination is a far larger, strategic look at how the still-developing technology may help Canada’s economy. Huawei Canada believes — and expects — that any 5G policy decisions made by the federal government are” based on technology, not politics,” according to Velshi.” Still, to maximize this promise for economic growth through 5G, the technology’s safety and security must be maintained,” according to briefing papers produced for Bill Blair, then the minister of public safety, earlier this time.” Incidents stemming from malignant actors exploiting vulnerabilities will be more delicate to help and may have a greater impact than in prior generations of wireless technology.”
A complex geopolitical drama between Ottawa and Beijing has effectively put Canada’s 5G policy announcement on hold for the previous three years.

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