David Vigneault singled out Russia and China, saying that Beijing was engaged in “activities that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty.”“You may think to yourself, ‘I’m not a national security person.
I’m a scientist, a business person, an academic and so on. I’m not interested in geopolitics,’” the Canadian Security Intelligence Service director said.“Well, I can say with some confidence that geopolitics is interested in you.
And it’s important that you know how you can be at risk and how you can protect your interests.”The address to the Centre for International Governance Innovation built upon earlier remarks by Vigneault about how adversarial states were targeting Canadians in espionage and foreign-influence.