Mr. Speaker, the hon. member said she believes that the process the government is using is transparent. She also believes that it is working with telecoms across the country. She also said that the government is always going to put our national security in place.
First of all, the government has not been transparent. We have been asking for quite a long time for Canada to join with our Five Eyes partners, like Australia, New Zealand and the United States, in banning Huawei. When it comes to transparency, we have no idea when that process will be there.
I mentioned some of the university infrastructure. Universities have publicly asked for the government to be clear as to what partnerships they should engage in. The member opposite did not even refer to that.
The former executive vice-president of NSERC recently wrote in The Globe and Mail that the Chinese government is using research deals in seemly unrelated fields to support Chinese military development, and the Chinese government has the power to force companies to comply with the government in undertaking espionage.
It is absurd that the government is not focused on these key issues in this country at this time.