MacKay Will Look Into Spying Reports

Mr. MacKay said he will talk to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day about the remarks by the CSIS director. “What I'm going to do is obviously speak directly with my colleague Stockwell Day when I return and find out more of the nature and detail of that particular testimony,” he said. As an opposition MP, Mr. MacKay charged that Canada has lost billions of dollars because of economic espionage. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, when he was opposition leader, said China has up to 1,000 spies operating in Canada. Last year, Mr. MacKay said he was very worried about Chinese industrial espionage in Canada. But yesterday he said he did not raise the issue in his four-hour meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Beijing on Monday. “I had no recent or specific examples of which to refer,” he said. “So that's why I do intend to find out more about it, delve into the detail when I return.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070501.wmackay0402/BNStory/National/home [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on May 3, 2007]

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