People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier said the Liberals are still working with the NDP to prevent documents from being released about two scientist with ties to the Chinese communist government and army."What is the Trudeau government covering up? Covid was a gigantic catastrophe for the whole planet," Bernier told the Western Standard.The documents opposition parties want to see involve PHAC's decision to fire scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, from their jobs at Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory in January 2020.Their demand for unredacted documents includes material related to the transfer, overseen by Qiu, of deadly Ebola and Henipah viruses to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology in March 2019.Opposition parties banded together in the previous parliament to demand just over 500 pages of unredacted PHAC documents, which were to be vetted by the parliamentary law clerk to determine what could be safely released."Countless articles have been written about the possibility that the virus was created in a biolab in Wuhan. Whether this is true or not, any role Canada played in helping this Wuhan lab develop viruses should be front page news," Bernier said."And yet, the Liberals are still working with the NDP to prevent documents from being released about two scientist with ties to the Chinese communist government and army, who were working at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and were fired in January 2020 after they had transferred viral samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology."The government applied to the Federal Court of Canada to prevent release of the documents, which it claimed would be "injurious to international relations, national defence or national security."It dropped the case when the election was called in August since dissolution had rendered the "matter moot.""Conveniently for them, a House of Commons order to produce the documents was voided when Trudeau called an election last fall," Bernier said."The Liberals are claiming that national security could be endangered if the opposition see these documents. Could it be the Liberals' credibility that would be endangered instead if there is evidence that Canada helped the Chinese communists develop dangerous viruses?""Canadians need to know the truth about this whole affair," Bernier said.
