A man charged with spying on Hydro-Québec — the place where he worked as a researcher for six years — for the benefit of entities in China struggled to explain in court why he emailed a document that contained lies and boasts about his accomplishments at the utility.

“Lying is just not right for anybody,” Yuesheng Wang, 38, said Friday during his second day of being cross-examined by prosecutor Sabrina Delli Fraine in a trial being held at the Longueuil courthouse.

Wang is charged with obtaining a trade secret for the benefit of China to the detriment of Canada’s economic interests, fraudulently obtaining a computer service, knowingly obtaining a trade secret and breach of trust.

He began working for Hydro-Québec in 2016 and was fired in 2022, after he was arrested by the RCMP.

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