Canada: We'll boot 'security risk' firms from gov network bid race

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/10/huawei_canada_network/

By Brid-Aine Parnell
The Register
10th October 2012

The Canadian government has said that it will be invoking a "national 
security exemption" as it hires firms to build a secure network, hinting 
that Chinese telco Huawei could be excluded.

The exemption allows the government to kick out of the running any 
companies or nations considered a security risk, which coming in the 
wake of the US report earlier this week labelling Huawei and ZTE as 
security threats, strongly indicates they're out of the bidding.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's top media spokesman refused to say for 
sure whether the government had Huawei in mind when invoking the 
exemption.

"The government is going to be choosing carefully in the construction of 
this network and it has invoked the national security exception for the 
building of this network," he said, according to the Calgary Herald.

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