One thing that's a bit confounding for those of us who are following this issue closely is that we know that CSIS talks regularly to Canadian universities and business organizations about state-sponsored threats to Canada. For example, last August, Canadian universities were warned about using Alibaba for Zoom-type technologies. Last August, they were also warned about the thousand talents program. You mentioned 5G as being a threat from foreign actors. Clearly, there's only one country and one company that is the embodiment of that threat.
Yet, last month one of the elements of the Government of Canada, NSERC, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, awarded an almost $5-million grant to partner with Huawei in Canadian universities. NSERC says that it doesn't see a problem with the grant. Canadian universities have indicated that they've not been warned against working or collaborating with Huawei, that they've not received any direction or guidance from the federal government in this regard.
Has CSIS given guidance to Canadian universities about the 5G threat?