LONGUEUIL — A Quebec court judge has rejected a bid by the province’s hydro utility to pre-emptively redact some information at an economic espionage trial.

Yuesheng Wang, 38, a former Hydro-Québec worker, was charged in 2022 for allegedly spying on behalf of China.

The utility asked the trial judge this week to impose orders to protect the confidentiality of sensitive information about its partners and its projects.

But in a lengthy oral ruling today, Quebec court Judge Jean-Philippe Marcoux says Hydro-Québec’s lawyers failed to establish that the publication of the information in question would pose a serious and real risk for a commercial interest.

As well, Marcoux says the information Hydro-Québec wanted sealed or redacted was too generic to constitute a commercial secret.

Wang’s

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