Health Minister Mark Holland’s assertion that people hadn’t clued in to espionage in 2019 is probably true, but it is not very reassuring
It seems careless to let uncleared foreign researchers roam unattended in a high-security microbiology lab, as one of the scientists fired in 2020, Keding Cheng, did.
It took further work before the spies found a series of connections to institutions of the People’s Republic, unreported contacts in, and links to a scientist who was a major-general in the People’s Liberation Army. The documents indicate that CSIS interviewers judged the two scientists, Chinese-born Canadians in the country since the 1990s, were not credible when they were asked to explain.
And the national-security concerns that kept the government fighting the release of the documents for yearsWe don’t know precisely what was redacted under the supervision of an all-party group of MPs and judges, but we now know for sure that what was previously censored – just about everything – went too far.
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