‘Open defiance’: Opposition slams feds for failure to produce Winnipeg lab documents amid formal rebuke of PHAC head

After delivering the admonishment, House Speaker Anthony Rota said he would consider MPs’ comments on the failure to release confidential documents, again, as he deliberates on another decision dealing with the ‘unprecedented situation.’

Public Health Agency of Canada’s president Iain Stewart is pictured June 21 in the House of Commons, where House Speaker Anthony Rota admonished him for failing to turnover unredacted documents in compliance with a House order. While Mr. Stewart appeared, he did not provide the requested documents. Photograph courtesy of ParlVu

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

June 22, 2021

During a rare parliamentary occurrence on Monday, Iain Stewart, president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), was admonished in the House for declining to hand over confidential documents that a majority of MPs ordered his office to release.

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