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Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota is seen in the House of Commons Wednesday April 14, 2021 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA – A federal attempt to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court, House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says. In a notice of motion filed Thursday in Federal Court, Rota says the House, by virtue of its parliamentary privileges, has the power to send for the “persons, papers and records” it deems necessary to its functions. “This constitutionally ...

Rota told MPs that he would fight 'tooth and nail' to protect the principal 'that the legal system does not have jurisdiction over the operations of the House'

Iain Stewart's career in a sense mirrors Canada’s balancing act with a nation that is a growing hotbed of science — and alleged plunderer of others’ research

Article content “We will clean up Harper’s mess,” Trudeau boasted. Now his government is doing something Harper never dreamed of – suing the very core institution of our democracy in order to keep secret the RCMP’s and CSIS’s findings about just what information Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, may have shipped from Canada’s most sensitive lab to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese government lab many suspect was the source of the COVID pandemic. The Trudeau government won’t even divulge whether Qiu and Cheng were Canadian, only saying the pair were leg...

Rota told MPs that he would fight 'tooth and nail' to protect the principal 'that the legal system does not have jurisdiction over the operations of the House'