One of the country’s leading business voices warned Thursday that Canada’s economic security faces external threats — and called on Ottawa to give its spies the power to share intelligence with private firms being targeted for foreign interference.
The Business Council of Canada, composed of chief executives and entrepreneurs in the country’s major companies, issued a 19-page report warning that “for decades now, successive Canadian governments have overlooked, taken for granted, or simply ignored the principle that economic security is national security.”
The report calls on the federal government to give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) the power to proactively warn and work with companies that have
