News Snapshot:
OTTAWA -- Chinese telecom giant Huawei rose to dominance by stealing the technology of the defunct Canadian firm Nortel, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says. O'Toole levelled the industrial-espionage charge against Huawei and the Chinese Communist Party on Tuesday as he announced that the Conservatives are pushing the Liberals to decide within 30 days which companies can provide Canada's next-generation 5G wireless internet technology. "The rise of Huawei was itself facilitated by years of industrial espionage conducted by China against Nortel," O'Toole told a press conference on Parliament Hill. "Intellectual-property theft, counterfeiting and digital piracy are not exceptions to our dealings...
