Canada should align with its allies to exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from its 5G network, says former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler. “We should be in the company of our democratic partners in the 5G, and not take a different position where that different position is in no instances warranted here,” Cotler said in an interview. Canada remains the only country among the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance that hasn’t made a decision regarding Huawei and 5G, despite the intelligence community’s warnings about the company’s threats to national security. The other four countries have banned or taken steps to ban Huawei from their 5G networks. Huawei was founded by a former officer of the People’s Liberation Army and has close ties to Beijing. The U.S. government has urged its allies to exclude the company from the West’s next-generation communications, saying Beijing could use it for spying. In late September, …