The Liberals are desperately attempting to bury the truth about how two scientists working at a federal laboratory in Winnipeg collaborated with Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on top security clearance virus research.
Just this Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government took the unprecedented step of refusing to comply with an order of the House. The Liberals seem to think that parliamentary rules and laws don’t apply to them.
The Conservatives and opposition parties have been pressuring the federal government to release information about the activities and eventual dismissal of two government-employed scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng, whose current whereabouts are unknown.
“The power of Parliament to send for papers is absolute, that is a very well established privilege and power that we have in this place,” said NDP MP Alistair MacGregor.
“And while the Liberals may rightly have concerns about the sensitive nature of the documents, there are no arguments that can be made against Parliament’s right to send for these papers.”
For some time now the Liberals have refused to provide any information on Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory after articles claimed that several scientists had collaborated with a PLA-affiliated academy based in China.
This is only one of the scandals that Dr. Theresa Tam’s office is dealing with, as Qiu and Cheng were under the top doctor’s employ when the duo were also accused of sending samples of Ebola and Henipah viruses to a Chinese lab.
Tam’s relation to the scandal is perhaps one reason why Trudeau’s office has refused to comply with the parliamentary order to procure documents.
Both scientists were removed and eventually fired from their jobs over the allegations and now nobody knows where they even are – having moved out of Winnipeg recently.
In typical Trudeau fashion, the prime minister attacked the Conservatives for playing into “anti-Asian racism” when asked about the lab, which is a popular go-to defense by CCP loyalists.
“Will the prime minister commit to ending this research and this co-operation with the regime that actually wants to hurt Canada?” Conservative MP Candice Bergen asked Trudea on May 26.
“The rise in anti-Asian racism we have been seeing over the past number of months should be of concern to everyone,” Trudeau said.
