Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. O-5)

Marginal note:Engaging in surreptitious or deceptive conduct

• 20.3 (1) Every person commits an indictable offence who, at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association with, a foreign entity, knowingly engages in surreptitious or deceptive conduct or omits, surreptitiously or with the intent to deceive, to do anything if the person’s conduct or omission is for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State or the person is reckless as to whether their conduct or omission is likely to harm Canadian interests.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (2) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable to imprisonment for life.

• Marginal note:Sentences to be served consecutively

  (3) A sentence, other than one of life imprisonment, imposed on a person for an offence under subsection (1) is to be served consecutively to

  • (a) any other sentence imposed on the person, other than one of life imprisonment, for an offence arising out of the same event or series of events; and

  • (b) any other sentence, other than one of life imprisonment, to which the person is subject at the time the sentence is imposed on the person for an offence under subsection (1).