Poilievre Highlights Winnipeg Lab Scientist’s Links to Chinese ‘Bioterrorism’ Expert, Decrying Government ‘Cover Up’

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada’s national security was left exposed after a top scientist at a federal high-safety laboratory collaborated with a Chinese military expert in bioweapons and bioterrorism. Decrying what he said is a “cover up,” Mr. Poilievre said the documents show there was a massive security beach at the level-4 laboratory in Winnipeg. “We have learned that the Trudeau government’s head of pathogens was collaborating with members of Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army who are responsible for bioweapons and bioterrorism,” Mr. Poilievre told reporters Feb. 29 in Ottawa. The Tory leader was reacting to the tabling of hundreds of pages of documents in Parliament by the government the day prior that address the firing of two scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg in 2021....