Conservatives asking the House of Commons to compel the Public Health Agency of Canada to turn over documents after the organization’s president’s refusal to disclose why two scientists were fired earlier this year
to compel the Public Health Agency of Canada to turn over hundreds of pages of documents after the organization’s president repeatedly refused to disclose why two scientists were fired from the country’s highest-security infectious-disease lab earlier this year.
The motion, sponsored by Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong, calls for the Commons law clerk to review the documents and redact information that could reasonably be expected to be injurious to national security or an ongoing criminal investigation before making it public.
A vote on the Commons motion will take place on Wednesday. It will require the support of the Bloc Québécois and NDP to pass. Mr. Chong could not say whether these parties will support it. “We’ve given the government ample opportunity to comply and we have laid out a responsible procedure for obtaining the information we’re seeking.”The Globe reported in May that Canada’s spy agency urged the removal of security clearances for the two scientists because of national-security concerns.
Little is publicly known about the reasons for the pair’s dismissal, although the RCMP are investigating. PHAC has repeatedly said their removal from the Winnipeg lab was not connected to the shipment of the two viruses. The Globe reported that one of the Chinese researchers, Feihu Yan, from the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, worked for a period of time at the Winnipeg lab.
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