But the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada has a long history of interface with China, both pursuing active engagement and handling Beijing’s sometimes-controversial behaviour.
His career in that sense mirrors Canada’s balancing act with a nation that is a growing hotbed of science — and alleged plunderer of others’ research.
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s Asia-Pacific section, says CSIS has consistently warned of China’s vast intelligence-gathering network and the threat it poses to Canadian intellectual property. A report he commissioned in the mid-1990s while at the service estimated Canada lost more than $10 billion a year from economic espionage.
But Juneau-Katsuya says governments give short shrift to the intelligence agency’s cautions and are too lax in protecting Canada’s scientific jewels.
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