Details withheld on fired scientists to save health agency embarrassment, MPs say
Redacted information in documents appears designed to protect PHAC, not national security, committee finds
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Redacted information in documents appears designed to protect PHAC, not national security, committee finds
Committee of MPs says documents appear to have been redacted not for national-security reasons, but to save Public Health Agency of Canada from embarrassment
Special committee will have unfettered access to national-security documents related to the firing of two scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory in 2021
Former judges will act as arbiters as special committee investigates the firing of Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng from the National Microbiology Laboratory in 2021
Winnipeg isn’t the kind of place that captures the world’s imagination. But as home to Canada’s Level 4 National Microbiology Lab, it has managed to generate a story worthy of a spy novel — one Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would very much like to go away.