Canada taking flak for spying on Brazil, reason unknown.

Canada is under scrutiny for spying on it southern neighbor, Brazil, for economic reasons, leaving experts figuring out why.

In a report by CBC News, the news comes after a TV report shown by Brazil's Globo TV network.

It explains how a Canadian agency used phone and email metadata to map the communications of Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry.

Former intelligence officer Michel Juneau-Katsuya thinks the country has to justify doing it for the sake of national security. - and that includes economic security. 

But Professor Jean Daudelin is not convinced. He finds it odd for Canada to spy on a nation which only brings one percent of both imports and exports. 

While intelligence expert Wesley Park believes that Canada may could have just been asked by other nations to do it, on the grounds of sharing intelligence info to other Western countries.

Ottawa has been quiet since the news report broke out, saying that Canadian intelligence officials are 'reaching out' to its Brazilian counterparts.