Health Minister Mark Holland told reporters in Ottawa that there has not been a hard stop to all work between infectious-disease researchers at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg and China
Minister of Health Mark Holland rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.Canada has stopped sharing dangerous pathogens with China through its high-security infectious-disease laboratory, but other collaborations continue despite past security breaches and a warning from Canada’s spy agency of the threat Beijing poses.
According to the documents, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessment also concluded her husband, Keding Cheng, represented a “very serious and credible security danger to the Government of Canada.” He said the lab has stopped sharing deadly pathogens with China because “the Chinese government is making active efforts to infiltrate our scientific community for purposes that are not for collaboration.”
Included in the documents released on Wednesday is a CSIS security screening that describes the People’s Republic of China as “a known security threat to Canada.”
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