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More than 40 per cent of the breadwinners for recent millionaire migrant households in Canada appear to have exited the country, although many left families behind there, according to new census data that illustrate the extent of a widespread phenomenon among rich Hong Kong and mainland Chinese immigrants. Overall, only 52.6 per cent of the 52,507 investor migrant households that moved to Canada between 1986 and the May 2016 census still had their original breadwinner, or “principal applicant”, living in Canada, according to the South China Morning Post’s analysis of the data. Some of those have likely died – since...

OTTAWA: Almost half of counter-espionage efforts in Canada target Chinese spies, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has told a senate committee. China ranked at the top of its list of more than a dozen countries believed to be spying on Canada, hoping to glean government, technological and corporate secrets, CSIS director Jim Judd said on Monday. "China is at the top of our list of counter-intelligence targets and accounts for close to 50 per cent of our counter-intelligence program," he said, according to CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion. The senate committee is studying whether Canada needs more robust...