40 Replies to “Huawei Worried?”

  1. – And Canada will happily forego our trusted relationship with the U.S.’s intelligence assets, and further marginalize our military, and become of even less use to the U.S., NATO and the world. And we can keep any military secrets we can generate on our own – nobody else will care.

    After all, our Prime Minister “admires China’s basic dictatorship”. And it’s important to show his prog-left fan base that he’s “standing up to Trump”. Classic case of writing cheques with HIS mouth that OUR bodies can’t cash.

    1. “And Canada will happily forego our trusted relationship with the U.S.’s intelligence assets”.
      I was an intelligence senior analyst with the CF. By the time I retired in early 2016 the newer staff we had – even junior officers – were inept at their jobs, with 0 awareness, 0 analytical capabilities & 0 credibility. Canada, within the 5 eyes community (AUSCANGBRNZUSA) produces likely less than 4-5% of the shared intelligence and are usually crappily articulated INTREPs – patrol reports with rarely any actionable intelligence included. Most Canadian military Commanders routinely dismiss briefers and advisors working for them.
      My friend is still in, a senior NCO intel guy. Most experienced analysts are mostly awaiting the day they can retire, go though “day to day” as morale is very low.
      CSIS are marginally better.

      1. Full respect for our military but as former CDS Hillier wrote in his books the political interference from Ottawa and our defence staff was unending in Afghanistan and other war zones. Don’t we have more generals than the US?

        1. “[The] political interference from Ottawa and our defence staff was unending in Afghanistan and other war zones.”

          Which makes us exactly like any other country – including the US.

          “Don’t we have more generals than the US?”

          No. Though we do have far too many general and flag officers for the size of our military. I believe there are over 130 of them.

          The US has something like 900.

      2. The Lieberals treat the Canadian Armed Forces as just another government civil service. Placement is based on declared gender and skin colour; not on character content.

        1. – Not quite. The Lieberals treat the CF as a government civil service that they DON’T ACTUALLY NEED. I’ve lost count of how many times Canada was told to “pony-up or go home” by our allies; and our shameful record of buying inadequate amounts of inadequate equipment unequal to the task, and letting the expensive stuff wear-out, rust-out or simply be yet one more “unfulfilled requirement”, is a national disgrace.

          Lessee… Little Potato is triggered by Trump so he’s not replacing our obsolete fighters ( – and besides, he needed the money to buy votes and blow-on telethons anyways – ). Canada’s tanks are stuck aboard a containership that drops anchor and says it won’t give them back unless we pay them a lot more money. The Sea Thing was referred-to by its aircrew as “Flying yesterday’s aircraft today – and tomorrow!” Sending our troops to Afghanistan, home to Russia-fighting jihadis with decades of guerilla experience, and expecting them to brave the IED’s in ILTIS.

          Maybe it’s best that we become pariahs in international military affairs – we ain’t much good to anyone, and it ain’t gonna get better anytime soon…

        3. You forgot to mention a person’s ability to speak French (it’s the heaviest weighted factor on the promotion board)

          1. Yes we understand the lifeguard can’t swim, but he’s bilingual! We must be the only nation in the world that has to delay tornado warnings by about 20 minutes in order to get a proper translation unless it happens that the weather forecaster on that day is also an approved bilingual translator. I heard the one who missed the tornado touchdown in Windsor a few years back was an official bilingual but some reason the warning still didn’t go out probably because the person was napping. (I have no idea if that is true. I just heard it from someone who works for them.) Americans on the other side of the river and Canadians who signed up for the private company warnings via “Ontario Tornados” all got warnings but no one else did. To be fair EC was spot on with the tornado warnings for the EF4 Alonsa tornado of 2018 but locally no warnings went out on the call phone because Ma Bell upgraded the service at source to make it compatible with AlertReady resulting in no service of any kind for anyone anywhere in the area. Our military has been reduced to about the same level of effectiveness by the same kind of bumbling.

          2. “You forgot to mention a person’s ability to speak French (it’s the heaviest weighted factor on the promotion board)”

            Yes, it’s an important factor. But no, it’s not the heaviest weighted one.

            And it works both ways: francophones are measured on their ability in English.

  2. Meanwhile Telus is installing Huawei equipment into its 5g network. This is the same Telus that is promoting that it follows Liberal Party policies rather than say it follows government policies.

  3. I suspect the Telus decision is a play for compensation by the government of Canada. The original Telus decision to install Huawei equipment was legal at the time it was done. Telus has over $1.5 billion invested in this equipment already. If the Canadian government now decides this is no longer kosher it has to compensate companies like Telus for that change in policy.

    The UK decision to allow some install of Huawei equipment is interesting as they route their data through some kind of data centre that supposedly screens for possible breaches. The Americans are not threatening to end their sharing of security intelligence with the Brits. If the Turdeau government was not such a unreliable ally I suspect the Americans might not be so suspicious.

    1. The Huawei security threat is to civil communications infrastructure and the Internet.

      Allied intelligence IT networks operate as segregated, separate intranets.

  4. Trudeau heard this and began laughing manically while skipping around the room singing “we’ll be on the security council, we’ll be on the security council.”

    2. Who cares. Those “Canadians” were Iranian sourced. Every last one of them. Not hostile to the state, or they wouldn’t be flying back and forth. No loss to this country from my POV.

  6. Liberals sell out Canadians as soon as they leave office. PM Jean Chrétien was in Beijing almost the day after he left office in order to sell us out. And Canadians, being very stupid, will re-elect Liberals.

    Liberal elites in Canada like Justin Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and Thomas Mulcair etc. want to be in charge of little Canadians, our interests are a distant secondary consideration, if a powerful organization behind them, like the Communist Party, means they can eventually ignore our interests, then that’s what they’ll do. After all, it’s for our own good that liberals rule over us.

  7. However, “under [China’s] national security legislation, in particular Article 7, it clearly states that if the state feels that they need to access to data from a private entity, they can do so at any given time.”

    Does anyone think our government wouldn’t / doesn’t do the same?
    Back scratching. The Liberals are probably only too happy to get their corrupt hands on more intel and more power.

  8. Philanthropist:

    And why wouldn’t they?

    We allow them to do whatever they want with zero pushback.

    Canadian conservatives, the putative opposition, are possibly the most apathetic, uninvolved, servile, silent, incompetent bunch of unlovable losers since Joe Btfsplk.

    Liberals, Climate zealots and Indians are above the law.

    Can you imagine allowing those miscreants to destroy your country?

    To completely and utterly destroy the better life that your ancestors worked so hard for?

    To steal your descendant’s inheritance?

    Canada’s standard of living was second to none and conservatives and uninformed Canadians are allowing the Liberals and their running dog friends to steal it, unopposed.

    Crooked Liberals, crooked Media, comatose conservatives.

    Bad recipe.

    1. What conservatives? Anyone who supports government paid health care is a socialist. I can’t find any conservatives in this whole country except old white guy and me. You can’t blame conservatives for this mess because there are none. If you don’t agree, I challenge you to name a conservative (not a Conservative) who has been elected to parliament since Deffenbacker.

      1. Indeed, all our politicians have only slightly different shades of the same ideology, an ideology of all government all the time from the cradle to the grave controlling every aspect of a subject’s life.

        Canadians could get a 25% pay increase, we could vote our money back up to par with the US dollar, but no politician in Canada would ever even present that as an option to voters.

        It is incredibly frustrating to see herds of Canadian voters choosing to have a lower standard of living just so our politicians can virtue signal their arrogance to the rest of the world.

  9. Really, I don’t think there are any Liberals who care about intelligence at the highest levels. They certainly show no signs of it.

  10. In 2021, with impeachment out of the way, the Democratic Party of Mike Bloomberg defeated at the polls and its leadership awaiting trial, Donald Trump will be well-advised to tie up loose ends and replace the Liberal-controlled in Ottawa with something less willing to do China’s dirty work.

    1. First up…..shut that border. Then we talk. With our lackadaisical Coronavirus response, shut sooner than later I’m thinking.

  11. This country is done, its BEEN done for decades, we’ve just been oblivious to that fact.
    As for our Military, of which I was at one time, part of…today.? pah Laughable…100% Attributable to Liberal Rule.

    Unification, UN Peace Keeping were some of the initial signs…Pierre the Pacifistic Communist didn’t help and it’s simply gone to utter shit since then. We have ships that are 2 generations out of date, aircraft that are far past their best before date, 2nd hand Junk submarines that simply never go to sea…I’m surprised that our guys (who I have the highest respect for), in the field aren’t still using Lee Enfields .303’s and FN C1’s.
    Downright Fkng Embarrasing. Particularly given we were the 3rd – 4th largest Armed Forces on the planet 1945.

    French Anti War Gutless LIBERAL wankers have precipitated and furthered this degradation since that time.

    I want a New Country – STAT.

    1. Heh. The Rangers have just replaced their Enfields – although to be honest, the Enfield was the best-ever bolt-action battle rifle, and the Rangers replaced them because they’d run out of parts; I read that a Ranger Enfield being on its fourth barrel was pretty normal. I believe they were chambered / barrelled in .308.

      And it’s no surprise we haven’t got any new military equipment recently – did you see what the new Ranger rifles COST?????? (0o0)

      And yeah, at the end of WW2 we had the world’s third-largest navy. Mind you, the last six years had seen a lot of bigger navies get sunk…

      1. 308 is too high pressure for the lee enfield bolt locking system. 303s is what they were / are.
        It would have been really simple and a lot cheaper to machine up some new parts for the old 303s but the contract would have been so small that there wouldn’t have been enough money in it to grease any politicians.

        1. We cant call them bribes nor kickbacks anymore…
          In the age of Blackie it’s called an Irregular Donation

    2. Yeah, it has many names “escalation of commitment”, “sunk cost fallacy”, “commitment bias”… Fear of losing that which has already been lost, and cannot be recovered.

      “The actor maintains behaviors that are irrational, but align with previous decisions and actions.”

      It applies to all levels; individuals, groups, governments, countries, civilizations. People who keep buying party memberships, even though it has long been clear the reasons they originally joined have been abandoned. People who keep buying poppies, even though it is clear anything that was ever fought for militarily has long since been given up voluntarily.

      1. As a past President of a Royal Canadian Legion Branch I resent that comment, the poppy campaign is carried out to assist veterans and their wives and children should that become necessary. If you ever attend a Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11th you would see that its about those who gave so much so that their children and grand children could live in a free country.If I recall correctly our illustrious Prime Minister told an Afganistan veteran that there was no money available to help with his rehabilitation or to assist in his reintegration into civilian life. Lately in his attempt to get himself promoted from the lowly job of Canadian Prime Minister to the exalted position of UN Security Council Member he is raining Canadian taxpayer hard earned $ all over several African countries. This is not money that we have, this is borrowed money that is being added to the deficit that future generations will have to repay, with accumulated interest.

  12. If Alberta and Sask and the better parts of BC can’t see that separation from these brain dead eastern morons, (who love like minded morons or prime morons running and ruining their lives), and cutting the ties is the only way to save our private property and our future for our children then we are doomed. Under this despicable bunch of dull barristas, the un will take and rule the canadian spoils and we all become serfs. As these clowns finance and build roads in the north to chicom mines, hand drilling off the Newfie coast to the chicoms, shut in Alberta and Saskatchewan oil and gas to drive us into the ground, send Barney and the barristas to negotiate trade deals with the likes of intelligent men like Lightheizer and Navvaro we look to a political climber like Kenney for leadership, he’s part of, and in the same globalist ship as the clown is. We need a leader, who cannot be bought, to step forward in the west quickly.

    1. Well said sir. We need a leader with credibility and charisma the likes of which has not been seen since Jesus Christ. He says He is coming but he won’t tell me when.

  14. There are questions about the health effects of exposure to 5G radiation. We won’t know until the latest crop of new “modern diseases” begin to emerge. Disease trends should be easy to map.

    Autism for example is now being heavily linked to proximity to major roadways. One interesting hypothesis is that metals from pollutants travel via the olfactory nerve directly to the brain. This is the only pathway to the brain not protected by the blood – brain barrier. I raise this as an example as to the difficulty of predicting health outcomes to environmental factors at any time until well after the environment has permanently changed.
    Do you trust the Chinese to have your health in their best interests?
    Did you know that many pharmaceuticals are made in China?

  16. As a past President of a Royal Canadian Legion Branch I resent that comment, the poppy campaign is carried out to assist veterans and their wives and children should that become necessary. If you ever attend a Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11th you would see that its about those who gave so much so that their children and grand children could live in a free country.If I recall correctly our illustrious Prime Minister told an Afganistan veteran that there was no money available to help with his rehabilitation or to assist in his reintegration into civilian life. Lately in his attempt to get himself promoted from the lowly job of Canadian Prime Minister to the exalted position of UN Security Council Member he is raining Canadian taxpayer hard earned $ all over several African countries. This is not money that we have, this is borrowed money that is being added to the deficit that future generations will have to repay, with accumulated interest.

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