Laut CSIS gehören China und Indien zu den Ländern, die in Kanada ausländische Einmischung und Spionage betreiben
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-india-foreign-interference-spying/
Laut CSIS gehören China und Indien zu den Ländern, die in Kanada ausländische Einmischung und Spionage betreiben
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-china-india-foreign-interference-spying/
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Canada’s spy agency says five countries, including China and India, remain the main perpetrators of foreign interference and espionage in this country despite all being singled out in a public inquiry into these activities.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service also identified Russia, Iran and Pakistan as countries that engage in foreign meddling and spying in Canada.
In its 2025 annual report, CSIS said the People’s Republic of China’s intelligence services, both civilian and military, have shifted tactics. For example, they post fake job advertisements through front companies on mainstream employment websites to recruit Canadians with access to proprietary or classified information. CSIS used the acronym PRCIS to refer to these Chinese intelligence services.
Unlike traditional targeted recruitment, this approach lets Chinese intelligence engage with a far larger pool of Canadians, who unknowingly apply to work for a hostile intelligence service.
Even applicants without direct access to sensitive information are useful, CSIS warned, because their résumés and personal data can help identify and target contacts who have access.
“The PRCIS takes advantage of the financial difficulties and career ambitions that drive some applicants to apply for these job postings,” CSIS said.
In 2025, CSIS said it published security alerts highlighting the PRCIS espionage tradecraft that targeted Canadian academic research.
CSIS said India has historically cultivated “covert relationships with Canadian politicians, journalists and members of the Indo-Canadian community to exert its influence and advance its interests.”
“This has included transnational repression activities, such as surveillance and other coercive tactics meant to suppress criticism of the government of India and create fear in the community,” CSIS said.
With the presence of Indo-Canadians in this country who support an independent Sikh homeland in Punjab, CSIS said it must remain vigilant that no harm is done to them.
CSIS said Russian state-linked actors have used proxy networks and AI tools to amplify Kremlin messaging and exploit divisive social topics to erode Canadian public support for Ukraine.
The Canadian spy agency said it worked with foreign partners to track Canadian technology being shipped to Russia – including microelectronics, satellite communication equipment and precision firearms – and stop it before it arrived.
Russia intelligence services are also active in hacking into e-mail accounts to steal information and to disrupt the activities of companies trying to help Ukraine.
CSIS said Iran remains an aggressive perpetrator of transnational repression. It has been accused of trying to kill former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler, a human-rights champion and critic of the Iranian regime.
In July, 2025, CSIS said an alleged Iranian state group hacked systems of Iran International, a Farsi online news operation based in London and Washington. The hackers obtained information of a Canadian resident and published their driver’s licence, permanent resident card and Iranian passport online.
“Within days of being doxed, the Canadian resident began receiving hundreds of violent threats, and their family in Iran was harassed by the authorities,” CSIS said.
To safeguard sensitive technology, CSIS said it reviews federal research funding for national-security concerns. It also provides regular briefings to Ottawa’s Major Projects Office and undertakes national-security reviews for all state-owned or foreign investments from hostile countries.
CSIS said it focusing more on the Arctic, where Russia and China are eyeing critical minerals, oil and gas development and the opening of new trade routes as a result of global warming.
What about America? I don’t doubt China and India are interfering
Who’d have thought that eh
A distraction away from US spying on Canadian citizens and our IP.
Liberal government open their arms for this.
LOL, every word you say is masking a country that truly has influence over Canada. Name that country.
I would think it’s more than just them.
I have no doubt that this is the case. These are authoritarian regimes with an activist, anti-regime diaspora within Canada. But this model is replayed across western democracies. Canada is not unique in this respect.
But what’s missing from this is interference by the US in particular, and to a lesser degree the UK, and various EU countries.
For some reason, interference by the current US administration is somehow coded as benign compared to China and India, but only one of them has publicly demanded that Canada entirely submit, and only one has pointedly taken control of Canada’s mass media to broadcast its self-serving narrative.
Go figure?!
I have a question. What exactly are people spying for? What are they trying to learn? What secrets do we have?
For years I’ve taken it for granted that spying is something terrible, like we see in movies, until one day I asked myself what kind of secrets do we have? What kind of secrets do other countries have?
Id bet both countries are kicking in to FN legal funds as well seeing as how destructive they are to Canada
Laughable the US isn’t mentioned lol
„but what about the US“ two things can be true at the same time why do some of you respond with immediate deflection and whataboutism when it comes to china or india screwing with us?
We know. But it’s racist to call it out.
If only our government would do something about it instead of focusing on taking away more of our rights lol
India’s been doing assassinations too.
Conveniently ignores the elephant in the ~~room~~ next door
Wait, Canada’s most powerful foreign-influenced lobby groups prioritize the interests of China and India?!
This does not track …
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Will those incoming Chinese EVs become another vector for spying ?
Amazing to read the comments here honestly. Hard to believe its real people, because I gotta say, if I was Iran, China, or India, I would be instructing my bots and propaganda farm to be saying „but what about the US??!? Theyre worse than all of them combined!“
Funny how many comments like that there are here…
Any country with a spy agency with sufficient funds would interfere in another country. This is not a surprise, really. No one should be surprised by these names.
What I found more surprising was the names that were excluded from the list: no mention of USA, any country in Europe ( other than Russia) or any country in Middle-East ( well, Iran is there but no KSA/Israel)?
Maybe this is a list of those agencies that are less competent than CSIS. More competent ones remained undetected.
Duh
What can they spy on? Secret treaties and negotiations that even Canadians are not allowed to know?
Carney’s best friends
What!?! No way! Who could’ve guessed that hmmmm?
So water is wet as well….
Is there anyone NOT intefering or spying on us?
You don’t say. What, are they gonna say Russia’s in on it too? And North Korea?
Don’t forget our friends in Russia
I thought just a couple months ago, Ottawa told us India was no longer a source of foreign interference….
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-indian-government-no-longer-seen-as-conducting-foreign-interference-in/
And? What are we going to do about it?
Everywhere we look in BC, east Indians are everywhere and here to stay.