Commentary Xiangguo Qiu, the former program director at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) who transferred deadly pathogens to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and her husband Keding Cheng, are missing from Winnipeg and may no longer even be in Canada, according to John Woods of the Canadian Press. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) “wouldn’t say if they know where the pair is,” and the case remains shrouded in secrecy. On the other hand, some fascinating facts have already emerged. As Karen Pauls of CBC News reported in 2019, “a researcher with ties to China was recently escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg amid an RCMP investigation into what’s being described as a possible ‘policy breach.’” The researcher was Dr. Qui, a medical doctor who came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996 and brought in “many students” from China to “help with her work.” Qiu’s Chinese students, …