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Brett Johnson it is July the 8th 2019
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and I’d noticed something interesting
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happened yesterday it looked like what
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may be the biggest cellphone outage ever
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across all major networks and I think
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it’s still affecting some people in some
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areas it happened in Canada and parts of
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the US yesterday and that sure looked
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like a dress rehearsal for something
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what do you think about that I find it
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absolutely fascinating and there’s a
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number of areas about that that that
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what took place that are very
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interesting for one thing it was the
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voice online it you could still send
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text messages and so on so the system
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was up and running but the voice was all
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blocked out and as you said it was all
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of the major suppliers cellphone
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suppliers and the main minor players too
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so basically it was a system-wide thing
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now things go wrong in technology we all
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understand that but for this sort of
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thing to happen that that that way I
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find extraordinarily suspicious and I
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just didn’t listen couple of little
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facts out of this that I think are
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pertinent and important is that’s
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probably not an accident this is easily
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an attack of some sort so who would be
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the logical player now let me point out
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a couple little things we’ve talked
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before about the company the Chinese
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company well way and there was famously
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this is a big case followed a lot the
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United States and Canada in particular
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but the main executive of Huawei who was
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in Canada was indicted and in the United
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States and we asked for extradition now
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that case is still playing its way
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forward that person that executive is
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the daughter I mean she’s an adult but
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she’s the daughter of one of the senior
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people back in China very wealthy family
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and so on so they’re totally connected
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in as we all know why way associates and
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works with Chinese intelligence in the
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military in the government they’re
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they’re tight in it’s a it’s an arm that
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represents the Chinese government and
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they do a lot of intelligence work and
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gathering of things
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Chinese the Chinese so this executive is
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still in jail in are being held in and
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Canada pending this this extra day
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extradition case the United States well
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just who is the largest supplier of the
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3G and 2g equipment which is the
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announced in today’s age that’s right
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now the backbone of most of
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communications in Canada and elsewhere
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in the United States – who’s the major
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supplier of that equipment none other
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than our little Huawei so you know this
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who is in position
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who has motive and I think you know
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tough to conclude that it’s anybody else
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but China now it’s conceivable that it
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was just a pure accident it’s
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conceivable that it was a terrorist act
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by an on but not by China but by some
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terrorist group trying to attack Canada
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in some way as well the Raps the rumors
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are that it actually was a specific
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switching mechanism that failed across
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the board multiple of it so you know
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your your hypothesis is looking a lot
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better than any other one well exactly
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right I mean if you’ve got you’ve got
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motive and you’ve got the capability to
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do all of this out of Huawei so you know
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how that would be who I would look at
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first it’s like you know I would compare
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it if I could do an analogy to a murder
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case you know if you find somebody the
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spouse dead at home you know who’s the
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first person the police look at you know
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the surviving spouse because 50% of the
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time they’re the ones that they
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committed the murder in a case like this
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you know the person who has motive and
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has access to commit that crime you know
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is the probably the person you need to
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be looking at so for this to be a pure
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accident it’s possible not likely
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for it to be somebody else possible not
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likely but for it to be China’s you know
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pretty likely so I think Canada you’ve
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been given a warning shot across the bow
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and China is telling you through the
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offices of Huawei to let that lady go
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and to cease and desist and to do what
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you’re told by China now we’ll see what
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what the government and in Canada does
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as a result but
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I think that they’ll they’ll take the
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low road and try to do as little as they
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can and I think what you’ll see is this
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become a non-issue in Canada I doubt
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you’ll see any reporting on it by the
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end of this week
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if we go with Trudeau’s record he will
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do some kind of stammering word salad if
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he mentions it at all that will say
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multiple things at once and so nothing
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at all Brad thank you very much you know
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what I think that’s proud you probably
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banged it and frankly I’m embarrassed I
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didn’t take it myself
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thanks very much all right thank you
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you
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you
