Real risk of foreign spying
Re: DND weighs security risk for new digs, Oct. 1.
I remember when the former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service informed Canadians that the Chinese were involved in spying activities a while back the cries of rightish indignation from the opposition parties could be heard loud and wide.
Now that listening devices have been discovered in the former Department of National Defence building that DND is scheduled to move into, it seems that this is becoming a political issue.
All political parties need to come to the realization that stealing our companies' secrets is much more economical than for a foreign company to do its own costly research and development. I have to wonder if this spy activity in fact helped with the demise of Nortel. Our security agencies, led by CSIS, must step up their game plan to root out such activities and shut them down before economic harm to Canada occurs.
As for the bugs, they surely can be located and extracted, slowing down but not permanently stopping the move by DND into the Nortel building.
This should be a good eye opener to all Canadian companies and our government as to the real risk of foreign spying in today's world.
Larry Comeau,
Ottawa
I remember when the former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service informed Canadians that the Chinese were involved in spying activities a while back the cries of rightish indignation from the opposition parties could be heard loud and wide.
Now that listening devices have been discovered in the former Department of National Defence building that DND is scheduled to move into, it seems that this is becoming a political issue.
All political parties need to come to the realization that stealing our companies' secrets is much more economical than for a foreign company to do its own costly research and development. I have to wonder if this spy activity in fact helped with the demise of Nortel. Our security agencies, led by CSIS, must step up their game plan to root out such activities and shut them down before economic harm to Canada occurs.
As for the bugs, they surely can be located and extracted, slowing down but not permanently stopping the move by DND into the Nortel building.
This should be a good eye opener to all Canadian companies and our government as to the real risk of foreign spying in today's world.
Larry Comeau,
Ottawa
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