Liberal and NDP MPs collaborated to halt a parliamentary investigation into the shocking security breach at Canada’s top biolab, in Winnipeg. 

Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong proposed the motion, aimed to investigate how Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, transmitted confidential information to China despite security warnings about their activities in 2019. 

“The People’s Republic of China and its entities infiltrated Canada’s top microbiology lab, a national security breach representing a very serious and credible threat to Canada,” Chong told the House of Commons Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

Documents released last week, authored by Canada’s top intelligence service, revealed that federal government virologists had a “clandestine relationship” with Chinese agents.

Dr. Qiu was also shown to have given unauthorized access to Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory, a Biosafety Level 4 facility which houses Canada’s most secret and secure pathogenic diseases.

Liberal-NDP “cover up” coalition

But the committee hearing was abruptly adjourned due to a motion by Liberal Igra Khalid, supported by her party colleagues and NDP MP Matthew Green, quashing the investigation. 

Khalid dismissed the motion as a political maneuver, asserting that security at the Winnipeg lab had already been strengthened. 

Conservative MP Michael Cooper criticized the shutdown as part of a broader pattern of governmental obstruction and cover-up.

Chong also noted how “The government defied four orders of the House of Commons and its committee for these documents.”

He added: “After three long years we finally have gotten access to the documents and we need to continue this examination in order to hold the government accountable.”

The CSIS documents further showed that seven months before COVID broke out in Wuhan, the now-fired virologist from Canada’s top biolab was secretly researching mRNA vaccines at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.