According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Canadian university researchers continue to partner with Huawei Technologies, even with a federal ban on Huawei’s equipment.. UBCCredit: Ben Nelms/CBC .Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Dauphin-Swan River, MB) tabled a report showing two universities filling patents with Huawei..“I have a patent application with me here,” Mazier told the Commons Science committee. He tabled a 2021 filing by the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Huawei..“How many patents has the University of British Columbia filed with or transferred to Huawei?” asked Mazier..“We have been changing our agreements,” replied UBC Vice-President of Research Gail Murphy..“Do you continue to work with Huawei in any form?” asked Mazier..“Yes, we do,” replied Murphy..READ MORE Federal and Sask govs still advertising on TikTok, after banning it on staff devices.Mazier also tabled patent filings by the University of Calgary (UoC) with Huawei Technologies. The UoC said it had since suspended its work with the Chinese company..“How many patents has the university applied for with or transferred to Huawei?” asked Mazier..“I don’t have those numbers at my fingertips,” replied UoC Vice-President of Research William Ghali..“I think your question is, of course, a very pertinent one, particularly in the current time where there is heightened attention to matters of research security,” said Ghali.. University of CalgaryUniversity of Calgary (photo credit: CBC) .“We are working under some new federal guidelines for safeguarding our research.”.Cabinet last May 19 banned Huawei Technologies from Canada’s fifth-generation wireless networks..“We have to be sure that we safeguard Canada’s telecommunications system,” Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told reporters..“Five-G networks are being installed across the country.”.“What threat does Huawei pose to Canada?” asked a reporter..“There is a need to ensure we prohibit the installation of their equipment,” replied Mendicino..Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said at the time using Huawei equipment was out of the question..“This is about Canada,” said Champagne..“This is about our national security. This is about our telecom infrastructure.”.READ MORE Prime minister’s chief of staff to testify on Chinese election interference.Huawei has been accused of stealing Canadian research, according to critics..“One of the reasons why Huawei is one of the greatest telecommunications companies in the world today, if not the biggest, is they did a great job of stealing a lot of Nortel intellectual property,” Carleton University Chancellor’s Professor Fen Osler Hampson testified at 2022 hearings of the Commons Defence committee..“That has found its way into Huawei equipment.”.Nortel Networks Corporation, Canada's largest telephone equipment manufacturer, fell into bankruptcy in 2009. Nortel’s Ottawa head office was subsequently refitted for use by the department of National Defence..“When I was parliamentary secretary for national defence, we took over the Nortel campus,” Conservative MP James Bezan (Selkirk-Interlake, MB) told the Commons last May 12..The military “took years to clean out all the switches and wiring installed by Huawei, which had the ability to spy on Nortel. There is a huge track record by Huawei of not being trustworthy.”
