Chinese defector reveals that China has over 1,000 spies in Canada alone

Most of these are economic spies, stealing technologies, such as the Blackberry cellphone, which was copied last year by a Chinese company and called the Redberry. The thefts cost over $12 Billion dollars per year to Canadian companies.

“The damage to Canadian interests takes the form of lost contracts, jobs and markets and overall, a diminished competitive advantage,” CSIS reported in a 2004 paper.

One example is China stealing the Blackberry technology. The Chinese version is called the “redberry” now Canadian companies have to compete with a Chinese version that was stolen from them.

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