Jim Balsillie concerned about Canada’s coziness with Huawei | The Weekly with Wendy Mesley

Huawei and ZTE should be banned in Canada.

Awesome points. I would love to see Blackberry step up and provide 5g equipments instead of whatever they are doing now!

I was never happy with our nations level of trade and exposure to China's government. If you think a Chinese company of such size is not under the thumb of Xi and the Central Committee, think again.

Hmm worries about The chinese spying on us...Didn't Edward Snowden blow a very loud whistle that the US and every wealthy country does this all the time? Gee I guess to western thinking only the "good governments" are the ones allowed to spy. What a load of BS we are surveilled by our corporations and governments every second but the Chinese are the boogeyman...yeah right. Jim baby we lost our sovereignty when we got "free trade" agreements. I guess Jim here has no idea how corrupt Canada is, he's just another average Canadian that thinks we are not like the others.

Canada is a patsy for China. Look at the FIPA agreement Harper signed guaranteeing oil via pipeline to west coast. But nobody ever talks about it. It's governments dirty secret.

basically white people saying here: "only we whites are allowed on this planet". what about russia? oh, they are a sort of like "whites gone bad". nah, a lot of russians are not pure white!

This is just maddening and sickening.

Hiring Huawei as your network system is like hiring a kleptomaniac as your home security guard.

Canada is a Sheep in a game full of wolves. People running the government have never been ambitious in doing what's best for us. A bunch of YES men and women following the lead of a county that's been the most corrupt for the past century. The world is laughing at us. We have an PM that think he's some GQ model, while the States have the orange hair bandit. Hell of a time we be living in.

YOUR THE ONE WE DON'T TRUST

The CCP of China wants Canada to be a satellite country of China. If Canadians think it is OK, go ahead and cooperate with hwawei.

I am from California and the Chinese here will never fly a Chinese flag nor will they stand outside a court house protesting like they do in Canada . Plain and simple . Canadians have given up their sovereignty to China in exchange for a few hundred million dollars . Canada is a joke

Lol of course they will spy on you. They monitor their own people. Come on Canada.

We have more similarity than difference with the American , on the contrary, we have more difference than similarity with China., which side are you on? And do Canadians really know the CCP of China? I think not.

Let's stick with 4G. I don't need to communicate with my blender, or augment my reality.

"Should we be talking a tougher stance against Huawei?"
You mean aside from kidnapping their CFO???

Again, a lot of fear, a lot of mistrust but no fact, evidence, proof whatsoever and no base for such behavior. Just Another XENOPHOBIC WHITE MAN.

Wait, if Canadian government invested in Canadian university, why is our tuition so high?

Canada's proximity or Trudeau's proximity?

I wish Canada could be more proactive and make solid privacy laws. However no one wants to do that because at some level they don't want people to have privacy.

So basically were getting it put in dry

CBC's views per video...
With a 1 million subscriber count don't add up...
Did CBC buy subscribers from YT to keep up with...
ALT media...

in one year justin met with Amazon 100 times

Google, Amazon, games apps and other tech companies spy on us, time to get our right to privacy back.

Maybe you should look at USA for spying, and Canada is no angle either! This guy is out to lunch!

Wise words.. I mean Canadian policy or non-policy/ inaction is such a disgrace. No personal attacks pls.

So many comments blaming the US and seeming to argue that China is right. But in reality you can’t deny that the control of big international firms is threatening. Huawei has operated as an arm of the Chinese state in the past. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple are not in cohorts with the US government, even if they do collect massive amounts of data. People commenting don’t seem to see that China invests for political gain and more power. Foreign firms need to be under more close regulation at a minimum, because the control they have over every single user’s data is a huge responsibility that should not be given lightly.

Huawei was able to produce hardware because the production facilities are located in China. America has this work done in China. Huawei invested into R&D but so do all technology companies using shareholder money.

Haha he starts with the "trust" word. No one trusts Google, Apple, etc. They ALL spy..

CIA, NSA & FBI are spying on you with or without Huawei.

The Chinese have placed people in every country and are buying up key business's in all American in north, central and south America. Just travel and see for yourselves.

The CBC BULL as normal the US and Canada have been spying on there own for years

Everybody is whinning because Chinese outsmarted everybody in thier 5G technology

Canada admitted clearly they are just an another service dog for US

What kind of awkward quality TV program. Interviewing with the lead of the LOSER company to provide the opinion for the successful company ! GEEE!

The guy stopped short to admit that the 5 "eye" countries have been using their telecom equipment to spy on other countries and their own citizen. Nevertheless, Snowden has already disclosed the fact that the US clearly did, even on its allies who are not part of 5 eyes, like Germany. You can be certain that all other 4 eyes including Canada did.

Too cozy with Huawei? Or too cozy with US who calls Canada a security treat?

ALL, of Canada's woes come from the continued use of British Crown rules and laws. We are being taken for fools.
FULL INDEPENDENCE NOW! Down with the crown!

Chinese always spy everybody. I hope we all boycott Chinese all together.

yankee go home

Being an evil empire of surveillance, the 5 eye alliance naturally reject equipment they can't backdoor and desire their own to eavesdrop on friends and foes. Merkel and Snowdon can tell you a thing or two.

This man is so right!

Canada should ask Huawei to spy Donald Trump for them.

Canada is wrong in supporting an extradition treaty for a 100% politically motivated harassment. . Canada should not support US terrorism. US is just taking advantage of Canada. China has always been Canada's friend until the Huawei event. Not worth it, not for US terrorism.

Sounds like we should stop international trade and stop international academic exchanges. We should not use anything that is not build in Canada. We should not use Android phone nor iPhone but just Blackberry. We should stop any foreign company to invest R&D in Canada instead of industrial espionage.

Poland just caught 2 Hauwei spies.

England just banned Hauwei in there universities.

Much sour grapes, blackberry loser. At least you admitted the 5 eyes spy on each other, and have for years.

We should let telco's use what ever equipment they want, as long as it is the standard. It is the companies like telus, bell, Shaw, that control the spying. Huawei phones compared to Blackberry, give me a break!

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