Opposition parties have called a parliamentary committee meeting to consider hearings that would probe revelations about two Canadian scientists fired from the country’s top infectious disease lab in 2021. The scientists were found to have associations with Chinese talent-recruitment programs and are now working in China.
Opposition parties have called a parliamentary committee meeting for Tuesday to consider hearings that would probe revelations about two Canadian scientists fired from the country’s top infectious disease lab in 2021. Declassified documents tabled in the House of Commons in late February showed Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Chengand that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found Dr. Qiu’s association with multiple talent-recruitment programs run by Chinese authorities.
Investigators for the government ultimately concluded that Dr. Qiu represented “a realistic and credible threat to Canada’s economic security” and that Mr. Cheng posed “a very serious and credible security danger to the government of Canada.”that the pair are now working in China, and Dr. Qiu is collaborating with researchers from the People’s Liberation Army. The couple are now using pseudonyms Sandra Chiu and Kaiting Cheng, different from the names they used at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.will be debated at a meeting of the Canada-China committee Tuesday. A number of Conservative MPs, as well as NDP foreign-affairs critic Heather McPherson and Bloc Québécois foreign-affairs critic Stéphane Bergeron, signed a letter requesting that the committee be convened. They will be meeting despite a break week for the Commons next week.Property records show Dr. Qiu and Mr
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