Jan 8 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Conservative Party wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to immediately telephone China’s President to seek the release of two imprisoned Canadians, and to inform the people of Canada whether it is safe to travel to China. The party’s foreign affairs critic, Erin O’Toole, said it is baffling that Mr. Trudeau called U.S. President Donald Trump […]
Jan 8 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — More than 80 per cent of Canadians have negative impressions of China’s authoritarian rulers and more than half believe Canada was right to detain a senior Huawei executive for possible extradition to the United States, a new poll shows. Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, currently released on $10-million bail and confined to the Vancouver area, […]
Dec 19 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer says the Official Opposition is firmly opposed to any move by the Liberal government to cancel exports of Canadian light-armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia. Mr. Scheer told The Globe and Mail he believes Canada could far more effectively signal its disapproval of Riyadh’s murder of a dissident Saudi journalist […]
Dec 17 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Spy chiefs from the Five Eyes intelligence network briefed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on two occasions this year about the national-security risk from Chinese high-tech giant Huawei − meetings that took place months before Canada’s arrest of a top Huawei executive severely strained relations with Beijing. Sources say Mr. Trudeau met the spy directors at […]
Dec 13 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — It has been a year since Paul Legault, Canada’s Senate Ethics Officer, began investigating an all-expenses-paid trip to China by three Conservative senators and their spouses. The ethics watchdog launched the probe last December after The Globe and Mail reported that Senators Victor Oh, Don Plett and Leo Housakos went on a two-week trip to […]
Dec 11 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Chinese embassy in Canada says the Vancouver arrest of a top Huawei executive amounts to a “political conspiracy” to undermine the telecom giant and it dismisses Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s assertion that he had no role in the high-profile case. The embassy told The Globe and Mail that Canada and the United States are […]
Dec 7 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Former prime minister Stephen Harper says he supports the United States’s campaign to persuade Canada and other key allies to ban the use of Huawei equipment in next-generation telecommunications networks. The Trudeau government has so far refused to join the majority of the Five Eyes Intelligence community in barring Huawei equipment from being used in […]
Dec 6 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knew in advance of the pending arrest in Canada of the senior executive and daughter of the founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei that has sparked vehement protests from Beijing. But Mr. Trudeau told reporters on Thursday that there was no political involvement in the decision to detain Huawei […]
Dec 5 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. Wanzhou Meng, who is also the deputy chair of Huawei’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Vancouver at the request of […]
Nov 20 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Federal Elections Commissioner Yves Cote has been formally asked to investigate the relationship between the Conservative Party and 10 Chinese-Canadian conservative non-profit organizations for possible breaches of election laws. The Liberal and NDP parties both sent letters to Mr. Cote’s office on Monday, saying an official probe is required to determine if there is collusion […]
Sep 24 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada’s top cybersecurity official says Ottawa is confident sufficient safeguards exist to deal with the risks of telecommunications hacking or spying by China, dismissing the need to follow the United States and Australia in barring Chinese telecom giant Huawei from next-generation 5G wireless networks.
Sep 19 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Canada is conducting a national security analysis to minimize cyberthreats to the country from equipment made by foreign telecommunications companies, including China’s Huawei – a study that has gained importance since the United States and Australia banned the telecom giant from participating in new wireless cellular networks.
Sep 7 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Canadian government has publicly acknowledged it has been conducting security tests since 2013 on smartphones and telecommunication equipment sold in Canada by Chinese giant Huawei, a company the United States and Australia regard as a potential tool for state-sponsored cyberspying. Under pressure from the United States to ban Huawei, which is a major sponsor […]
Jun 18 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Senior lawmakers on U.S. intelligence committees are warning the Trudeau government that Chinese smartphone maker Huawei – which has turned Canada into a key research centre for next-generation mobile technology – is a national-security threat to a network of Canada’s allies. Republican Senator Tom Cotton and Democratic Senator Mark Warner told The Globe and Mail […]
May 24 2018 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his cabinet vetoed a Chinese state-owned conglomerate’s takeover of one of Canada’s largest construction companies because of concerns it could control critical infrastructure projects and threaten Canadian sovereignty. Mr. Trudeau declined to outline the details of the national-security threats that led Ottawa to block the proposed $1.5-billion acquisition of Aecon […]