{"id":16429,"date":"2021-06-25T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16429"},"modified":"2021-06-25T00:05:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:05:28","slug":"bar-fight-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16429","title":{"rendered":"bar fight escalates&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-at-the-bar-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-at-the-bar-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-at-the-bar-2-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-at-the-bar-2-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>The bar where it all started<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When we last spoke,<strong>PHAC president Iain Stewart has been summoned to show up at the bar <\/strong>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&#8217;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&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it seems PM Trudeau &amp; the Liberal government have donned the gloves and are <strong>taking the House of Commons Speaker to court <\/strong>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Speaker-vs-Trudeau-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Speaker-vs-Trudeau-copy.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Speaker-vs-Trudeau-copy-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Speaker-vs-Trudeau-copy-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption><strong>House Speaker &amp; PM Trudeau<\/strong> in unprecedented face off!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-escalation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-escalation.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-escalation-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Court-Painter-escalation-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Court Painter relaxes after depicting the unprecedented face off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s National Microbiology Laboratory in July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;bar fight escalates&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16429"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20269,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions\/20269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}