OTTAWA—The Conservatives have rejected a proposed compromise to resolve a long−running dispute over the disclosure of secret documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada’s highest security laboratory. Conservative House leader Gerard Deltell said Wednesday the government’s proposal is “months late.” He pointed out that in the previous parliamentary session the Public Health Agency of Canada ignored multiple orders from a Commons committee and the House itself to produce unredacted documents that could shed light on the firing of scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng. “The will of Parliament is clear and that has not changed,” Deltell told the Commons. The two scientists were escorted out of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory in July 2019 and subsequently fired last January. Last week, government House leader Mark Holland proposed a compromise: creating a special all−party committee to review the documents, with a panel of three former senior judges …
Tories Reject Proposed Compromise to Allow MPs to See Documents on Fired Scientists
December 8, 2021
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