Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act — O-5 2
Definitions 2 (1) In this Act, Attorney General means the Attorney General of Canada and includes his or her lawful deputy; ( procureur général ) communicate includes to make available; ( communiquer ) document includes part of a document; ( document ) foreign economic entity means (a) a foreign state or a group of foreign states, or (b) an entity that is controlled, in law or in fact, or is substantially owned, by a foreign state or a group of foreign states; ( entité économique étrangère ) foreign entity means (a) a foreign power, (b) a group or association of foreign powers, or of one or more foreign powers and one or more terrorist groups, or (c) a person acting at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association with a foreign power or a group or association referred to in paragraph (b); ( entité étrangère ) foreign power means (a) the government of a foreign state, (b) an entity exercising or purporting to exercise the functions of a government in relation to a territory outside Canada regardless of whether Canada recognizes the territory as a state or the authority of that entity over the territory, or (c) a political faction or party operating within a foreign state whose stated purpose is to assume the role of government of a foreign state; ( puissance étrangère ) foreign state means (a) a state other than Canada, (b) a province, state or other political subdivision of a state other than Canada, or (c) a colony, dependency, possession, protectorate, condominium, trust territory or any territory falling under the jurisdiction of a state other than Canada; ( État étranger ) model includes design, pattern and specimen; ( modèle ) munitions of war means arms, ammunition, implements or munitions of war, military stores or any articles deemed capable of being converted thereinto or made useful in the production thereof; ( munitions de guerre ) offence under this Act includes any act, omission or other thing that is punishable under this Act; ( infraction à la présente loi ) office under Her Majesty includes any office or employment in or under any department or branch of the government of Canada or of any province, and any office or employment in, on or under any board, commission, corporation or other body that is an agent of Her Majesty in right of Canada or any province; ( fonction relevant de Sa Majesté ) prohibited place means (a) any work of defence belonging to or occupied or used by or on behalf of Her Majesty, including arsenals, armed forces establishments or stations, factories, dockyards, mines, minefields, camps, ships, aircraft, telegraph, telephone, wireless or signal stations or offices, and places used for the purpose of building, repairing, making or storing any munitions of war or any sketches, plans, models or documents relating thereto, or for the purpose of getting any metals, oil or minerals of use in time of war, (b) any place not belonging to Her Majesty where any munitions of war or any sketches, plans, models or documents relating thereto are being made, repaired, obtained or stored under contract with, or with any person on behalf of, Her Majesty or otherwise on behalf of Her Majesty, and (c) any place that is for the time being declared by order of the Governor in Council to be a prohibited place on the ground that information with respect thereto or damage thereto would be useful to a foreign power; ( endroit prohibé ) senior police officer [Repealed, 2001, c. 41, s. 26] sketch includes any mode of representing any place or thing; ( croquis ) terrorist activity has the same meaning as in subsection 83.01(1) of the Criminal Code ; ( activité terroriste ) terrorist group has the same meaning as in subsection 83.01(1) of the Criminal Code . ( groupe terroriste ) Her Majesty (2) In this Act, any reference to Her Majesty means Her Majesty in right of Canada or any province. Communicating or receiving (3) In this Act, (a) expressions referring to communicating or receiving include any communica