Ottawa not intending to use new powers to ban Chinese telecoms

Iain Grant, a telecommunications analyst at SeaBoard Group, said the government doesn’t need to publicly direct Canadian telecom services companies to avoid Huawei and ZTE products because those companies’ gear already represents too much risk. If the services companies bought the Chinese equipment and were later forced to strip the gear from their systems for security reasons, Grant said, it would cost a lot more than what they would have saved on the initial purchase.