Mere citizens have the right to be told what the government wants them to be told, and that’s that. It is reasonable, however, to anticipate the hearings could be treated to one of his patented Twitter outbursts. “When they get Huawei into Canada or other Western countries, they’re going to know every health record, every banking record, every social media post; they’re going to know everything about every single Canadian,” O’Brien said. There is no reason to suspect the U.S. of needless paranoia about Huawei and its activities. But official dawdling has done nothing to alter the stark evidence that Huawei should be kept as far as possible from anything to do with Canadian networks.

Source: National Post December 02, 2019 15:34 UTC