Former Huawei subsidiary planning talks with federal government to enter Canada

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Honor Device Co., Ltd., a Chinese consumer device company and former subsidiary of Huawei, is lobbying the federal government to allow the sale of its smartphones in Canada.
Honor will attempt to tamp down security concerns that saw its former parent company banned from doing business in Canada. Executives are planning to meet with staff from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada in mid-June, according to Mathew Palmer, a senior vice-president at public affairs firm Weber Shandwick, which is helping the company arrange discussions with the government.
The exact date of the meeting is yet to be determined, he said, but will include a visit by Honor’s leadership to Ottawa. ISED did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“These are introductory discussions, so that the Canadian government can understand who Honor is and who they aren’t, and to ensure regulatory clarity and fair market entry,” Mr. Palmer said.
Honor was founded in 2013 as a sub-brand of Huawei, and produces a range of smartphones, tablets, laptops and other wearable devices. In Britain, its smartphones start at prices roughly equivalent to $220, with some models selling for $1000 or more.
After the U.S. banned Huawei and its subsidiaries in 2019 over security concerns, Huawei sold Honor to majority-owner Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology Co., Ltd., a state-owned municipal economic group based in Shenzhen, China.
“We want to make the distinction between economic ownership and a strategic apparatus of the national government,” Mr. Palmer said. “Those two are not interlinked.”
Canada had a rocky relationship with Honor’s former parent company. Following several of its peers, Canada banned Huawei from operating its networks here in 2022 because of security concerns, and ordered telecom companies to remove Huawei’s radio equipment from their systems. Beijing has disputed that the company’s technology posed privacy concerns.
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I see we’re going the full Cathay and opening up all the doors to Xi & Co.
 
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Only retards buy those.
 
I'd 100% take a Huawei over an Apple iPhone with chips from Israel.
 
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Lol you have this thing where you reply to me implying I said things that I didn't. That's why I never answer or reply to you it's like bait every time.

Zionism is jwish
Communism is jwish

None of the above would be a nice option I agree.

Have a good day Chev.
 
With the Americans working toward walling off all their electronics hardware to be entirely American, this is one area Canada is actually doing "good" in. For people who want to maximize their security/anonymity, having easy-access to Chinese made, American made, Russian made and any-country made hardware for that matter will become important.

We're pivoting, albeit a little slowly, toward a situation where governments will have total backdoor access to all your electronics at a hardware level soon and the only bypass will be making your own hardware or having some dude with a mini semiconductor fab in their basement (like the people soldering playstations and satellite boxes in the 90s but modern tech upscale) who can fix the modern hardware (very unlikely though due to the complexity). So, in lieu of this, you're basically going to have to decide which government you want spying on you instead. Pirating Disney movies? Better not let the Americans see but the Russians won't care. Discussing how Kiev is the center of all Slavic High Culture? Better not let the Russian see but the Americans won't care. Doing something shady with porn involving Chinese girls? Better not let the Chinese see but the Americans and Russians won't care, etc...
 
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