Update 1: Memo to PM & Canada-China Business Council, Security? Extradition, Military Clawback & Organized Crime in Canada

Update 1:

Memo to Paul Martin and the China-Canada Business Council: Download and read this before meeting with Hu Jintao

Tech Transfer Notes PDF -- Security Awareness For Employees July 2005

Part I: Thefts of U.S. technology boost China's weaponry
by Bill Gertz

China's spies use as many as 3,200 front companies — many run by groups linked to the Chinese military — that are set up to covertly obtain information, equipment and technology, U.S. officials say. Recent examples include front businesses in Milwaukee; Trenton, N.J.; and Palo Alto, Calif., Mr. Szady said. In other cases, China has dispatched students, short-term visitors, businesspeople and scientific delegations with the objective of stealing technology and other secrets.

The Chinese "are very good at being where the information is," Mr. Szady said. "If you build a submarine, no one is going to steal a submarine. But what they are looking for are the systems or materials or the designs or the batteries or the air conditioning or the things that make that thing tick," he said. "That's what they are very good at collecting, going after both the private sector, the industrial complexes, as well as the colleges and universities in collecting scientific developments that they need."

See also these articles in the PDF:

* Chinese spy exposes Chinese espionage network in Europe
By Huang Zhenzhen, Central News Agency

* Chinese students believed to be running industrial ‘spy network' across Europe

* At risk offshore -- U.S. companies outsourcing their software development offshore can get stung by industrial espionage and poor intellectual property safeguards Condensed from an article by Michael Fitzgerald

* Outsourcing update

Foreknowledge . . .




Extradition: To whose benefit?

Gotcha! Canadian Business, David Baines, 2003-09-29 re:undercover work and Cpl. Bill Majcher of the Vancouver RCMP Integrated Proceeds of Crime Unit

[. . . . Quoting Chambers,] a financial facilitator for the Hells Angels, Russian mobsters and myriad other people who worked on the edge of the law.

[. . . . ] Chambers also made some comments to Majcher that later didn't exactly enhance his bail application. "Oh, if you get arrested in Canada, the chances of the Americans getting you out of there, and then in anything under about three or four years, is zero," he said. "We don't extradite. It requires a goddamn federal cabinet, you know, the equivalent of the secretary of state, to sign the goddamn warrant to extradite you." [. . . . ]

Isn't that sad? Incompetent? Why? To whose benefit?



Military:

Liberals Break Promise on Accelerating Purchase of Search and . . . . Air force sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the statement of requirements has been written and rewritten at least four times over the past year at the request of officials in the office of Defence Minister Bill Graham. (National Post, September 1, 2005) Posted by James Hunter on 12:31:39 2005/09/01

[. . . . ] the Liberals are now clawing back the money from the Department of National Defence. Yet another promise that the Liberals have broken to the men and women of the Canadian military. [. . . . ]

Organized Crime in Canada: A Quarterly Summary January to March, 2005

Assume [. . . . ] after each item in the Table of Contents

Organized Crime Activities
Counterfeiting
Drug Trafficking
Canada’s Marijuana Industry
Fraud
Money Laundering
Smuggling – Cigarettes
Smuggling – Arms
Violence
Organized Crime Genres
Aboriginal Youth Gangs
Italian
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Enforcement

An excerpt:

Counterfeiting

A global anti-counterfeit group claims Canada is home to an estimated $20 billion-per-year industry in fake designer clothes, counterfeit software and countless other fraudulent goods. In a report to the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) estimates that “20 per cent of the Canadian market is now pirate product,” and accuses Canada of doing little to stop the illegal industry. In fact, the coalition says China, notorious for being the single largest manufacturer of counterfeit items, offers better enforcement against counterfeit products than Canada. [. . . . ]

Maybe PM could talk with Hu Jintao about this when they meet.

---