Juno News - January 04, 2020


Ban Huawei!

Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Michael Kovrig Michael Spavor Michelle Obama Ralph Goodale Huawei Huawei Barack Obama Ericsson
The Candice Malcolm Show： HNIC's ratings plummet after firing Don Cherry ＂What's the future of conservatism in Canada？＂ Candice Malcolm sits down with JJ McCullough

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

176.47

Word count

1,045

Sentence count

1

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Canadians have long been asking for a ban on Huawei being included in Canada s 5G grid and the creation of our 5G telecommunications underbelly. Yet the Liberal government seems unable to get near the possibility of saying the words Canada needs to ban Huawei from the grid, despite the overwhelming evidence and calls from experts in Canada and abroad.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 it's a well-known refrain that the two hardest words in the English language to say are I'm
00:00:10.200 sorry at least that's according to relationship counselors and so on but I humbly submit to you
00:00:15.900 that there are two more words two other entries in the most difficult phrase to say or at least
00:00:21.240 so is the case in Canadian politics ban Huawei pretty simple sentence not a difficult one to
00:00:28.320 say but it seems like the federal liberal government is increasingly unable to to get
00:00:33.540 towards the possibility of saying those two words putting those two words together despite the fact
00:00:40.500 that all the calls from experts from our allies and all the evidence suggests that those are two
00:00:45.840 words that we would really like to hear from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Federal Cabinet in
00:00:50.400 2020 so former Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodell he kept telling us last year that a decision will
00:00:56.880 be made that we are looking at the facts and the evidence in a non-partisan way or however he put
00:01:02.560 it as if everything was so objective and so above board and a decision will be coming after the
00:01:07.600 election kind of funny that not a political decision which obviously it is and yet we're going to be
00:01:13.240 making this non-political decision after an election suggesting well perhaps there is some politics afoot
00:01:19.780 this is incredibly worrying right now because various opinion polls show that Canadians do want a reset a
00:01:25.860 public reckoning in our relationship with China and it would be great if we could talk about our
00:01:31.040 ongoing spat with China and the hostage taking of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in total isolation
00:01:37.380 from the Huawei file and normally one would be able to do that in sort of normal foreign affairs your
00:01:42.860 relationship with one country as well as your relationship with a private company in that country but
00:01:48.720 that's not how this works at all in China is there really such a thing as a hundred percent
00:01:54.900 sole private corporation yes there are state-owned enterprises massive conglomerates out there that
00:02:00.520 go out into the world and they do China's bidding and we have to be very concerned about them and quite 1.00
00:02:05.620 frankly we should block all state-owned enterprises from buying any Canadian assets we're not there yet
00:02:11.220 hopefully we will be and that is a conversation to have after this for another day Huawei
00:02:16.440 supposedly a private sector company is is a private sector company but there are a lot of rules and
00:02:23.040 laws in China that basically say private sector companies still have to do things when the government
00:02:28.800 asks them there's a really really troubling scene in the documentary American Factory if you haven't seen
00:02:35.460 it before it's on Netflix actually executive produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama sort of project
00:02:40.880 they've taken on producing some films now in their post politics life and this documentary is about a
00:02:47.380 Chinese company buying a factory in Dayton Ohio and they send some of the American employees over to
00:02:54.680 China to take a look at how they do things back in China at their company and one of the scenes involves
00:03:00.480 touring the Chinese Communist Party office the sort of physical room that is in their private company's headquarters in
00:03:09.800 China you're saying what what are you talking about imagine this imagine you go to work in Canada and
00:03:16.300 there's a little room off to the side called Liberal Party office and you go in there and there's the
00:03:22.200 platform and there's a shrine to Justin Trudeau and there's Sunnyways music playing in the background and
00:03:27.800 you're kind of expected and encouraged senior employees to go in there and sort of pray at the altar of this Liberal Party room is there a Conservative Party NDP Green Party?
00:03:36.800 you're not allowed just one for the governing party the Chinese Communist Party this isn't a private
00:03:43.300 company and the majority of private corporations in China have these very such rooms so even companies that are
00:03:51.300 technically private corporations have these deep relationships with the government that is incredibly alarming I could go through the tally and the list and the evidence and the calls from from various experts and the
00:04:05.300 from various experts in Canada and abroad as to why Canada needs to ban Huawei from playing a role in our 5G grid and the creation of our 5G telecommunications underbelly I just don't have the time for that because that would take hours that is how many people out there who know what they're talking about who say do not do this and yet the government says well we're still just looking up the facts find me a fact sheet that supports them being in the
00:04:35.300 included in our grid Huawei of course denies all of these allegations as one would expect them to do they say there's nothing to worry about us doing the bidding of Chinese intelligence in Canada that is the only part of the fact sheet that is in their favor that they deny all of this but you don't have other people coming forward and saying yes here are the great reasons why they should do it aside from the fact that Huawei
00:04:57.300 Huawei can do this technology but hold on a second there are other countries that can other companies that can pardon me like Ericsson and Nokia which are based in Europe so we can go with them we can have them play a role in this why the stakes are so high is what 5G internet connectivity will be is not just a faster internet but the internet of things it will herald
00:05:18.300 all of our devices all of our devices our personal electronics and our appliances being online being on the grid and talking to each other which opens up the possibility of this sort of police state stuff that we saw well back in the Soviet era during the Cold War and places like Eastern Europe where people were listening in on each other but those were crude devices now the technology is hundreds fold greater
00:05:48.300 the question is will he do it can he say that very apparently difficult sentence ban Huawei