STATE- SPONSORED ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE

   The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) told Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan in October 2016 that “foreign state actors” are adapting their methods to hide their involvement with — and in some cases, control over — Canadian businesses.
   In a speech to the Economic Club of Canada last December, CSIS Director David Vigneault told the crowd that the agency has seen state-sponsored economic espionage “across many sectors of our economy.”
  “Hostile foreign intelligence services or people who are working with the tacit or explicit support of foreign states gather political, economic, commercial, or military information through clandestine means here in Canada,” Vigneault’s speech read.