China says: "What Spies?"
In an unsurprising move, China refuted allegations that it has agents in Canada engaging in economic espionage. It is interesting to note that no mention is made of other covert activities, including monitoring and possible threatening of Chinese democracy movements active within Canada.
Peter Mckay would be well advised to tread softly here. This issue is touchy for the Chinese, singing to the media about it isn't likely to be of much help. But all that said, the government needs to assist companies like Research in Motion (Chinese state run telecom companies recently released a "Redberry" ripoff of their "Blackberry" email gadget) in protecting their intellectual property.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/20/canada.china.ap/