When we last spoke,PHAC president Iain Stewart has been summoned to show up at the bar in the House of Commons chamber to be personally admonished by the speaker over failing to turnover unredacted documents explaining why scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were escorted out of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory in July 2019 and then later fired by the agency. Stewart has been ordered to produce the unredacted documents on Monday, but it remains to be seen whether he will and surprise surprise, he didn’t.
Well, it seems PM Trudeau & the Liberal government have donned the gloves and are taking the House of Commons Speaker to court to block release of unredacted records about the fired scientists, in an unprecedented move to prevent the release of uncensored documents to members of Parliament.
