NDP MPs again backed the Liberals in the House of Commons on Monday, allowing them to block the parliamentary inquiry into Chinese espionage at the high-security infectious disease laboratory in Winnipeg.
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Two researchers linked to the Chinese army and the Wuhan virology laboratory have been stealing scientific secrets and dangerous pathogens for years and transferring them to China.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng were kicked out of the Winnipeg lab in 2019. However, their layoffs were not announced until January 2021. The couple disappeared without a trace while being the subject of an investigation by the RCMP, CSIS, and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). You have to do it!
- Listen to the Lester Durocher meeting with blogger Normand Lester from the Journal de Montréal QUB :
Trudeau's U-turn on the investigation
After several years of requests from opposition parties, the Trudeau government finally agreed to allow MPs from all parties to access documents about the Canadian security services' investigation into the matter.
The select committee of MPs acknowledged that some information had to remain secret for national security reasons, but claimed that other information had been redacted to protect PHAC leaders.
The Liberal government also agreed to a parliamentary commission calling witnesses to get to the bottom of this mysterious and disturbing matter. Several senior officials were to be subpoenaed, including CSIS director David Vigneault, the prime minister's national security adviser Nathalie Drouin and public security minister Dominic LeBlanc.
Then Trudeau changed his mind. There is no question that parliamentarians are investigating this.
Justin Trudeau was unable to answer questions on the issue and deflected criticism by accusing Pierre Poilievre of using national security as a weapon. The Conservative leader viciously suggested that Chinese spy networks across Canada were aiding the re-election of a Liberal government in 2021.
- Listen to the Lester Durocher meeting with blogger Normand Lester from the Journal de Montréal QUB :
The NDP is hiding behind Judge Hogue
The NDP justified its support for Trudeau in the Chinese espionage affair in Winnipeg by saying that the Hogue Commission, which is already investigating Chinese interference in Canadian politics, should also look into this file.
It's a way of drowning the fish. Judge Marie-Josée Hogue of the Quebec Court of Appeal is tasked with uncovering the extent of Chinese interference in the last two federal elections in 2019 and 2021. And that's not all.
It is intended to expose not only the interference of China, but also the interference of Russia, India and all other actors, whether federal or not, in the recent federal elections. That's a lot of work.
And furthermore, the first public hearings raised questions about its functioning and the selection of people who were granted intervener status.
Therefore, Judge Hogue's impartiality was called into question when she allowed Senator Yuen Pau Woo to participate in the inquiry as a full intervener. Not only was Woo chairman of the liberal-leaning Independent Senators Group until 2022, but his positions also reflect those of the Chinese Communist Party.