According to a report released this week from a think tank, co-founded by RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, Canada needs to step its spying efforts on the Chinese.
Um m’kay which would most likely mean something if Canada had a foreign spy service.
A study released this week, A Reassessment of Canada’s Interests in China, finds that Ottawa’s failure to keep its eyes and ears trained on the world’s most populous, and economically dynamic, country is having consequences. Much of the study’s focus is on China’s unconstrained spying and Canada’s relative naiveté.
For example, Ottawa’s envoys to China are said to be so Mandarin-illiterate that they “cannot even read the local daily newspaper” without soliciting the help of locals, whose loyalties are always in question.
And because diplomats are felt to be doing a poor job of interpreting China for Ottawa, federal intelligence agencies are urged to step up.
Hmm, so will we get a foreign spy agency? And why doesn’t this country have one? It’s odd when you consider the long rich history that Canada has on the world stage. Intrepid, Camp X et cetera.
So, where was I? Oh right. Evil everywhere, run screaming…blah, blah, blah.
