Taxpayers Should Not Compensate Telecoms if Huawei Banned: Tories

Taxpayers Should Not Compensate Telecoms if Huawei Banned: Tories
The Huawei logo is seen at the IFA consumer technology fair in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 3, 2020. Michele Tantussi/Reuters
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The Conservatives are calling on the federal government not to compensate Canada’s large telecom corporations with taxpayer money for choosing to install Huawei’s equipment for their next-generation 5G networks if the Liberals go ahead with a ban on Huawei 5G.

“Canadians should not have to pay for the Trudeau government’s failure to make the right decision and ban Huawei years ago,” wrote Conservative Shadow Minister for Public Safety, Raquel Dancho, and Conservative Shadow Minister for Innovation, Science and Industry, Ed Fast, in a letter sent Dec. 3.