Federal Official Says Years-Long Timeline to Fire Winnipeg Lab Scientists Needs Review

The government’s years-long timeline to dismiss two scientists from Canada’s top-security lab in Winnipeg for their undisclosed ties to China deserves a review, the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister told MPs. “It’s always easy to look at what happened in the past with our retrospective lens and see how easy it was,” Nathalie Drouin, who also serves as deputy Privy Council clerk, said in her April 29 testimony before the House of Commons special committee on the Canada-China relationship. “But from the first signal to the moment the two scientists were put on leave, yes, there is a timeline that needs to be looked at.”...