The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that a federal directive instructing Canadian telcos to remove some Chinese-made radio equipment from their networks was meant to safeguard national security, but 2-1/2 years later, the law containing it has died in Parliament. The Globe's Irene Galea writes that some of that Chinese gear remains in Telus's network. In May, 2022, Ottawa released a policy statement announcing its intention to prohibit telecommunications providers from incorporating products made by Huawei and ZTE, which is partly owned by the Chinese government, on their 5G networks. The United States, Britain, Germany and Australia also ordered the removal of Huawei equipment from their 5G networks. Ottawa's directive was introduced in Bill C-26, the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act, which would have given Innovation Minister the power to compel the telcos to protect its critical cybersystems. BCE's Bell said it considered the directive to apply to all radios operating on 5G networks and replaced all equipment accordingly. Telus has interpreted the directive as referring to the type of radio, not the network it is operating on, so it continues to use some Huawei radio equipment on its 5G networks.