Canada Needs to Get Back to Acting Like a Serious Country

Commentary The federal government has released an alarming intelligence assessment conducted by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. Two people were focus of the assessment: Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng, both scientists who had worked at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. That institution is a Level-4 virology lab, where some of the world’s most deadly human and animal viruses are stored and studied. The couple were abruptly removed from the lab in 2019, and their dismissal was kept quiet for two years. In 2021, though, only the mere fact of their removal was revealed—not the reason for it....