Conservatives demand Liberals make NSICOP a parliamentary committee, release Winnipeg lab docs

The prime minister has the power to censor reports from the NSICOP for a variety of reasons, and in theory controls who sits on the committee.

Government House Leader Mark Holland, left, is the minister responsible for the NSICOP Secretariat. Conservative MP Michael Chong is his party's foreign affairs critic, and says the Tories won't participate in the NSICOP unless it is seriously reformed.The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia, Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

January 10, 2022

The circumstances surrounding the year-ago dismissal of Chinese scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC’s) National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, and the transfer in 2019 of Ebola and Henipah viruses from the lab to Chin...

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