Liberals and NDP Block Tory Proposal to Review Winnipeg Lab Documents in Committee
A motion by the Tory party to initiate a parliamentary committee investigation into the recently disclosed Winnipeg lab documents, revealing significant security breaches at the high-level security facility, did not garner support from Liberal and NDP MPs.
On March 4, a special session of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) was convened to consider a motion put forth by Tory MP Michael Chong.
After four Conservative MPs voiced their support for the motion, Liberal MP Iqra Khalid proposed to adjourn the debate, effectively terminating the meeting, accusing the official opposition of politicizing the issue. NDP MP Matthew Green backed the motion to adjourn, while Bloc Québécois MP René Villemure opposed it.
Mr. Chong suggested conducting a study based on the government’s findings, which identified the Chinese regime and its entities infiltrating Canada’s top microbiology lab, posing a serious and credible threat to national security.
The motion was introduced shortly after the Liberal government released hundreds of pages of documents detailing the dismissal of two China-linked scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, the only bio-safety level 4 facility in Canada authorized to handle lethal pathogens.
Mr. Chong’s motion aimed to investigate the information transmission within the government and the government’s use of “over-classification” to block Parliament’s access to the documents.
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