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Why Canada needs to reset its economic relationship with China<\/strong>
\nJim Hinton and Matthew Bondy: Canada needs to gain control of ‘partnerships’ between its universities and Beijing<\/p>\n

Author of the article:Jim Hinton and Matthew Bondy , Special to Financial Post
\nPublished Jul 17, 2023 \u2022 Last updated 57 minutes ago \u2022 3 minute read<\/p>\n

By Jim Hinton and Matthew Bondy<\/p>\n

Before Chrysler’s 1934 Airflow, car aerodynamics were literally backward\u2014our wind-tunnel\u2026<\/p>\n

In June, Canada\u2019s finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, announced an immediate halt to the federal government\u2019s participation in the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank, a Chinese-led outfit that notionally invests in roads and bridges throughout the Indo-Pacific to spur regional economic development.<\/p>\n

Freeland\u2019s announcement clearly foreshadowed a full withdrawal of participation in the organization.<\/p>\n

The specific reasons for the abrupt pull-out remain unclear, but as Canadian Indo-Pacific scholar Jonathan Miller has written, this move recognizes a mistaken policy and the government of Canada deserves kudos for the change. AIIB was essentially a vector for Beijing\u2019s global geopolitical ambitions, and after detaining Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig for 1,019 days and bullying Canada\u2019s prime minister at international forums, the AIIB opt-out at least nods in the direction of national self-respect.<\/p>\n

However laudable the AIIB withdrawal is, it\u2019s the tip of the iceberg for a much-needed reset on Sino-Canadian relations.<\/p>\n

The best next step we can take is to get serious on protecting our institutes of higher learning from espionage, intellectual property (IP) theft and \u201cpartnerships\u201d that render Canada an economic vassal state. Fifty Canadian universities have conducted extensive research with China\u2019s military since 2005. That\u2019s the same military that threatens regional instability across the Indo-Pacific and is credibly accused of supporting Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. Additionally, Huawei \u2014 the telecommunications arm of the Chinese Communist Party \u2014 has been permitted access to 20 of Canada\u2019s research institutions with disastrous results.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars go into funding advanced research at Canadian universities every year. Thanks to these \u201cpartnerships\u201d with Huawei, Canadian families have subsidized hundreds of patents for the telecom giant, which the Government of Canada has finally banned from helping to build our telecommunications networks on the grounds that it is a national security concern.<\/p>\n

When Huawei gets these patents, they come with the economic rights that they use for Chinese economic benefit. China has gotten good at this: this is a systematic exfiltration of Canadian publicly funded assets to an organization that now isn\u2019t even allowed in Canada\u2019s and other allies\u2019 networks, and it\u2019s still happening today.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the bad news. The good news is that Canada can get a handle on the situation by implementing a three-part playbook that draws from our American and Australian friends\u2019 experiences.<\/p>\n

First, we need transparency. We need to know exactly who is working with Canadian research institutions and how much they have been benefiting. Stunningly, we don\u2019t currently have this information.<\/p>\n

We also need to know what this technology has been used for. Particularly for dual-use technologies that may have commercial uses as well as nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n

And we need universities receiving public funding to track and report the flow of research and development efforts with annual and concrete disclosure, including how much and who they are working with.<\/p>\n

Second, Canada needs to communicate to universities that our domestic security institutions are in fact the good guys \u2014 not the bad guys \u2014 and that working with them is a good thing both for institutional reputation and the national interest. This principle of building the university-security institution relationship could include a version of Australia\u2019s new law that enables its governments to cancel international contracts made by universities if they fly in the face of the national interest.<\/p>\n

Third, Canada needs so, so much more education \u2014 throughout the academy, the civil service, and the economy in general \u2014 about the nature of the intangibles economy and how to win at it by generating and commercializing intellectual property.<\/p>\n

This is especially pivotal because in the 21st century, economic and security risks are not separate issues \u2014 a principle referred to as civil-military fusion. IP and data assets for artificial intelligence, quantum computing, photonics, biotech and aerospace are dual-use technologies that have both economic and national security value. Net-benefit assessments in industry and in research agreements need to include both the economic potential and security risks.<\/p>\n

These changes will help Canada become a predator rather than the prey on 21st century economic issues.<\/p>\n

As it stands right now, China sees our universities as strategic IP generators for their military and firms. It has to stop. The federal government needs to take control of the situation and ensure that publicly funded intellectual property and data assets benefit Canadians, not hostile foreign militaries.<\/p>\n

Matthew Bondy, MA, is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Jim Hinton is an intellectual property lawyer with Own Innovation and an Assistant Professor at Western University.<\/p>\n

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