Conservatives launch new probe into Canada's lab leak scandal: National security failure saw Chinese scientists send Ebola in the mail to Wuhan and spy on top research hub
Daily MailMembers of Canada's House of Commons have successfully opened a new investigation into a pair of Chinese scientists who spied for Beijing while they were employed at a microbiology lab in Winnipeg. Chinese scientist Dr Xiangguo Qiu was booted out of a Canadian lab after she was found to have been mailing lethal viruses, including Ebola, back to China to aid research. It is the only biosafety level 4 lab in the country cleared to handle dangerous pathogens including Ebola and Marburg virus But Liberals and the New Democrats thwarted Conservative MPs' attempt to study its contents more closely, shutting down an emergency House of Commons ethics committee meeting on the matter at the beginning of March. Dr Qiu, shown working in the lab, was also found to have lied to officials about a vacation she took to China in 2018 and to have appeared on two Chinese patents without the knowledge of the lab Conservative MP Michael Chong made the motion to start the new investigation.