RCMP lays historic first charge of economic espionage against former Hydro-Québec researcher

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Hydro-Québec has said that it hopes to gain about 10 per cent of the $3-billion global electric-battery market by 2030.Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press RCMP have laid the first economic-espionage charge in Canadian history against a researcher in Quebec who is accused of obtaining trade secrets for the benefit of China. Yuesheng Wang, 35, faces four criminal charges involving an alleged conspiracy to spy on his employer. He has spent six years working for Hydro-Québec, which said in a statement that he was doing research into battery materials for the utility’s Centre of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage. In...