Commentary One’s first reaction is stupefaction. This has to be a joke, right? It is not. The Globe and Mail reports that the federal government is partnering with Huawei—yes, that Huawei—to “sponsor leading computer and electrical engineering research at Canadian universities.” Of course, this threatens our national security and economic interests, but the pipeline to China’s bully regime—or rather the “partnership”—is going ahead anyway, at least for now. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), a federal agency, is collaborating with the Canadian arm of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to the tune of $4.8 million, according to the Globe. Top universities in the United States and Britain have shunned further research money from Huawei over intellectual-property and national-security concerns. But not Canada. Did they not get the memo from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that communist China is a threat to our national security? That it works in …