A former employee of Quebec's electricity utility charged with economic espionage for the benefit of China denied he was a flight risk and wants to stay in Canada to fight the charges.
Yuesheng Wang faces four charges under the Security of Information Act and the Criminal Code of Canada.
The 35-year-old has been detained since his Nov. 14 arrest by the RCMP. Federal prosecutors oppose his release because they fear he will flee the country. Police also allege Wang used information without his employer's consent, harming Hydro-Québec's intellectual property. Since Wednesday, the court has heard some of the evidence gathered in the course of the RCMP investigation. Wang's lawyer, Gary Martin, has not sought a publication ban on any of the evidence.
He told the court that the information he is alleged to have sent was not secret and was "open source."
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