MPs grill 'incompetent' health agency on fired National Microbiology Lab scientists

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OTTAWA — Federal officials in charge of the National Microbiology Lab defended security protocols at the Winnipeg institution against accusations from MPs of bureaucratic incompetence Friday.

"We acted as expeditiously as we could, given the information that was available," Public Health Agency of Canada head Heather Jeffrey said Friday.

The documents also show the Canadian Security Intelligence Service concluded that Qiu repeatedly lied about the extent of her work with institutions of the Chinese government, and that she refused to admit involvement in various Chinese programs even when evidence was presented to her. On Monday, MPs representing the Conservatives, Bloc Québécois and even a Liberal grilled officials over why Qiu was allowed to undertake sensitive work while they were under investigation.

Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith repeatedly asked whether these updated protocols would have stopped the unauthorized shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. She responded that she couldn't answer a hypothetical question.

 

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