Why isn’t Canada prosecuting intellectual property crime?

The federal government has an array of glossy cyber policy documents, including its National Cyber Security Strategy, National Cyber Security Action Plan: 2019-2024, and the recent International Cyber Policy. But none of these documents mention prosecution—and Canada's record on enforcement and prosecution is extremely weak.

CSIS director David Vigneault, pictured on July 16, 2020, has commented that economic espionage—which consists primarily of theft of soft IP like trade secrets—is 'the greatest threat to our prosperity and national interest.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MATT MALONE

October 7, 2021

OTTAWA—The notion that criminal theft of intellectual property hurts our national prosperity has become a regular talking point in Canadian national security circles. And that's just what it is: a regular talking point. Apart from the rhetoric about this problem, we do not seem to be intent on pro...

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