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Current outcry over Huawei Canada’s R&D investments creates impression Chinese company’s doing something sinister, but it’s not

Canada’s takeover of the Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5-billion, with another estimated $7.5-billion or more needed to twin the pipeline, is a dubious initiative for several reasons. But it showed Canada can act when it has to. Imagine if a similar amount of money had been available to really build up our own tech sector. The benefits would have been much greater. Instead, we have R&D branch plants.

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BY DAVID CRANE
June 4, 2018

Opinion | BY DAVID CRANE | June 4, 2018

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