Tag: PHAC

Complacency Contributed to Canada’s Lack of Preparedness When COVID Struck: Health Economist

Canada’s public health response to COVID-19 pandemic was slow getting off the ground, largely due to complacency and a focus on optics over substance on the part of federal bureaucrats, a health economist says. Livio Di Matteo, a professor of economics at Lakehead University, says Canada’s system developed to provide early warning of infectious disease…


PHAC President Rebuked, Still Doesn’t Produce Documents on Fired Scientists

OTTAWA—Conservatives are proposing that the Public Health Agency of Canada’s offices be searched after the head of the agency refused once again to hand over unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory The move comes after PHAC president Iain Stewart appeared before the bar of the House of…


O’Toole Says National Security Committee Being Used to Cover up Scientists’ Firing

OTTAWA—Erin O’Toole says Conservatives will no longer participate in a special national security committee because it’s being used to cover up an incident that caused two scientists at Canada’s highest level security laboratory to be fired. The Conservative leader says his party’s members are withdrawing “effectively immediately” from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of…


Hajdu Evades Answering Why Chinese Military Scientist Had Access to Canada’s Highest-Security Infectious Disease Lab

Health Minister Patty Hajdu refused to answer why a Chinese military scientist was given access to work at Canada’s highest-security infectious-disease lab during Question Period at the House of Commons Tuesday. “How on earth did a Chinese military scientist get access to the government’s lab in Winnipeg, a level 4 facility equipped to handle the…


Officials Grill PHAC Over Failure to Produce Unredacted Documents Concerning Transfer of Viruses to Wuhan Lab

A Commons Committee grilled the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) over his failure to produce unredacted documents related to the transfer of deadly viruses to China’s Wuhan laboratory and the agency’s removal of two Chinese scientists. The Standing Committee on Canada-China Relations summoned Iain Stewart to testify on Monday after he…


MPs Grill PHAC Over Failure to Produce Unredacted Documents Concerning Transfer of Viruses to Wuhan Lab

A Commons Committee grilled the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) over his failure to produce unredacted documents related to the transfer of deadly viruses to China’s Wuhan laboratory and the agency’s removal of two Chinese scientists. The Standing Committee on Canada-China Relations summoned Iain Stewart to testify on Monday after he…


MPs Give PHAC 20 Days to Submit Documents About Removal of 2 Scientists From Winnipeg Lab

A House of Commons committee has passed a motion rejecting the reason the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) gave for refusing to disclose critical documents that would help explain why two scientists were fired from Canada’s highest-security Level 4 laboratory. On Wednesday, the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations passed a motion…