Right, I don't know. I am merely almost certain.

There is nobody who has spent much time in the information security industry who will agree with you that there is any level of comparability in Chinese and Canadian network attack activities.

We *do* know about hacks against private companies, and in general we have a good idea who perpetrates them. That is not speculation. Yes, our people can hack lots of commercial products, but that has nothing to do with who the targets are. Compromising an iphone isn't an attack on Apple, it is an attack on whoever uses that particular phone.

And yes, CSE can legally hack when it has authorization, but that isn't arbitrary.  The law sets strict criteria for when CSE should be doing intelligence gathering, and there is no possible way that it would be kosher for them to act as we see China doing regularly.