Security conference also hears China and Russia are waging hybrid war against Canada by disrupting and stealing from public agencies, and from private companies that overseeing critical infrastructure
Canada ’s spy agency aims to begin sharing intelligence next year about pervasive foreign threats with entities outside the federal government – such as companies, universities, public utilities, Indigenous governments and diaspora groups – after a landmark bill passed this summer, a top official told a security summit in Vancouver.
“We’re a bit like the dog that caught the car at the moment,” said Mr. Ouellette, director-general of academic outreach and stakeholder engagement at CSIS. “The bill passed in 46 days from introduction to royal assent, which, for anybody who follows the legislative process will know, is pretty fast.”
Until the amendments to the act governing CSIS, Mr. Ouellette said, his agency could only collect intelligence and share it with Ottawa because the regulations were borne of the Cold War, in 1984, when foreign espionage and sabotage almost exclusively targeted the various arms of Ottawa. CSIS has long recognized that other countries and their criminal partners are targeting businesses and civil society groups, as well, and has worked to improve its outreach in the past few years, he said.
But, he told the crowd of bureaucrats, businesspeople, bankers, lawyers, security experts, academics and tech entrepreneurs, that the feedback from biotech companies and universities showed the spy agency this type of lab espionage was “a lot more common than a lot of us had expected.”
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