Conservative, NDP and Bloc MPs called on the government for details on why two scientists were fired from Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory this year
The same facility has in recent years conducted experiments and co-authored studies on infectious diseases alongside Chinese military researchers, including one researcher from the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences.
The Liberal government has so far rejected calls for the documents, claiming a release of such information would be a breach of national security, and could reveal details of an ongoing police investigation. Liberals, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have sought to frame questions about the laboratory’s operations as parliamentary overreach motivated purely by racism.Article content
The Winnipeg lab is the only level-4 security laboratory in Canada, equipped to handle some of the deadliest known infectious diseases. “We know full well that biological warfare is forbidden internationally,” Bloc MP Stéphane Bergeron said. “We know, however, that there’s a certain number of states that are delinquents. Therefore, we have to tighten up security, to ensure that we avoid letting Canadian research fall into the wrong hands.”
“Nobody in this House is suggesting that COVID-19 was manufactured in the Winnipeg lab or that Corona viruses were at any point transferred from Canada to China. But we are questioning the level of cooperation in general that seems to have been taking place between Winnipeg and its various Chinese military affiliate labs, including the one in Wuhan.”
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