Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada must “be vigilant” of foreign actors targeting the country’s technology, pointing to artificial intelligence and intellectual property as potential targets.
McGuinty had been asked by a reporter what the government is doing to protect technology being stolen from competitors like China.
“That’s a very, very big question. The government has seized with this responsibility nowhere more obviously than I think in the field of artificial intelligence where Canada is becoming a major player,” he said.
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“We’re going to have to be vigilant. We have experience with this issue of the loss of intellectual property over time, for example, of Nortel previously.”
McGuinty added: “The safeguards that we’ve got in place now are significant. Our security and intelligence organizations have more than a watching brief on these kinds of activities,” he said on Thursday, announcing over $20 million in funding towards Canada’s third defence innovation secure hub dedicated to quantum technologies.
Canadian telecom giant Nortel dominated the global fibre optics industry for years before filing for bankruptcy in 2009 and liquidating in 2017.
Chinese espionage and hacking has been cited as a critical factor in the company’s demise by former company employees and media reporting.
Chinese hackers are alleged to have had a wide array of access to the former telecommunications giant as far back as 2000, which included downloaded business plans, research and development reports, employee emails, among other documents.
As Nortel Networks declined, Chinese multinational technology corporation Huawei grew to become one of the more dominant telecom equipment makers.
Canada needs to be more vigilant of the Liberal fascist regime giving tech away. Canada needs to be more vigilant of who these azzholes let in!
Ben, spoken like a true fool
Why? Because we know that China uses spyware in their products – so why are we allowing Chinese EV’s in again?
Carney is hoping China will save us when the USA drops CUSMA and tariffs all trade with Canada. China will instead take our resources and leave Canada a hollow shell.
But the CCP are the LPC’s best friends. The liberals even sent one to work at NATO, look at how that turned out.
They are called industrial spy’s. China built their industrial base around them
Harper was a Chinese Spy and Poilievre is a CCP Agent Hacker. This is a well known fact amongst the experts
We don’t have to worry about Chinese hacking ,the Liberals will gladly hand them anything they request. India as well.
And lets pretend that this is a new concern. We all remember how to Chinese agents infiltrated the nation’s most important biolab in Winnipeg, and JT allowed it and did nothing about it.
China is financing the anti- data centers movement in Canada. CSIS has documentation on this. Keep that in mind when you see a news article or protest against data centers in Canada
Canaduh major player LoL, major knob gobbler yes!
Canaduh major player not, major returd YES!
Foreign interference is only acceptable when it helps the LPC win elections