The Liberal government presented a plan to the opposition on Dec. 2 to end the dispute regarding the release of sensitive documents on the firing of scientists at Canada’s top bio-safety laboratory. Government House Leader Mark Holland made the offer in the House of Commons, proposing that a member of each party, with a back-up, be assigned to a special committee to review the documents, and three agreed-upon retired judges could be assigned to assess what can be released to the public. The government, citing national security and privacy concerns, has resisted revealing details about the scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng, who were escorted out of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab (NML) in 2019 amid a police probe and then fired in January 2021. Holland revealed another dimension while stating his proposal, saying that the documents contain “information subject to national security that would have been injurious to Canada’s reputation …