Chief technology officer Ibrahim Gedeon said there was no agreement, a day after The Globe and Mail reported that Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) had asked Telus to remove the Huawei equipment. (Reuters)
Talking point: The federal government is considering whether to ban Huawei from working on 5G, but the network around Ottawa is 4G. Some security experts are concerned that poses a risk anyway. “Allowing Huawei around sensitive, even insensitive, government institutions is problematic because it is an organization that is a statutory arm of the Chinese government,” said Andrew Ellis, a former CSIS assistant director of operations.
