RCMP Inspector David Beaudoin says that the case marks the first time that a suspect has been charged under a law against economic espionage passed by Parliament more than two decades ago
RCMP have laid the first economic-espionage charge in Canadian history against a researcher in Quebec who is accused of obtaining trade secrets for the benefit of China.
“The RCMP has a mandate to detect and disrupt foreign interference attempts,” the police force said in a statement. It said that Hydro-Québec is a crucial Canadian entity and “a strategic interest to be protected.” In court documents, the RCMP says the conspiracy began back in 2018, but that it began putting the case together in August. That was the month it received a complaint from Hydro-Québec’s corporate security branch alleging that Mr. Wang wrongly obtained proprietary information.
The Security of Information Act was enacted in 2001. Section 19 of the act lays out the punishments for anyone who uses a “trade secret for the benefit of foreign economic entity.” Anyone convicted of obtaining intellectual property “at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association” with a foreign country can spend up to 10 years in prison.
China currently dominates the global market for battery metals. It is a major miner of lithium and controls about two-thirds of refining processes globally. The only lithium mine in operation in Canada is the Chinese-owned and operated Tanco mine in Manitoba.
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