Ottawa, Nov. 14 -- Canada's government and private sector are being targeted by foreign adversaries, particularly Russia and China who have "significant interest" in Canada's Arctic region, the head of the country's spy agency has claimed as per local media.

Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told CBC's Power & Politics on Thursday (local time) that they "definitely have to be attentive to the possibility of information operations or interference."

China and Russia continue to target Canada for sensitive government and private-sector intelligence and high-tech goods, and are seeking to gain a strategic foothold in the Arctic, Rogers was quoted as saying in the Globe and Mail.

"Chinese spies have t...