Level 4 laboratories are designed to deal with highly infectious pathogens. If these pathogens are released, they may cause huge damage. Qiu is the head of the vaccine development and antiviral treatment department of the laboratory’s special pathogen project.

PHAC has referred the matter to the RCMP, and Qiu and Zheng were fired in January this year.

O’Toole said on Tuesday that lawmakers have the right to learn more about these scientists and any security breaches related to transporting samples of the world’s deadliest disease to a country that is hostile to Canada and its closest allies.

O’Toole said PHAC has refused to provide more details The “deeply disturbing cover-up” of this incident.

“How can two scientists with deep ties to the Chinese military enter a Canadian high-level security laboratory with the world’s most dangerous virus?” O’Toole said.

“We have some serious questions about this apparent violation of the agreement and the continued disconnect between Mr. Trudeau and the reality of the Beijing Communist regime.”

Although PHAC has released some documents from the Canada-China Relations Committee of the House of Commons, most of the information contained therein has been extensively edited. The Conservative Party filed a motion against Japan, asking the government to cancel the review.

PHAC Chairman Iain Stewart defended confidentiality last month, saying that he was “legally bound to keep confidential information confidential.”

The Wuhan laboratory that received these pathogens from Canada is now the focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) investigating the origin of COVID-19.

U.S. President Joe Biden has instructed U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble their efforts” to find out whether the virus came from a laboratory in the city-the city was the initial epicenter of the pandemic.

Biden’s order was issued after the U.S. intelligence service discovered more details about the three researchers from the Wuhan laboratory who fell ill in November 2019-a few weeks before the first confirmed case, and before China notified the WHO of “pneumonia” The case” was more than a month earlier. “Unexplained cause” was found in that city. China denies that laboratory leaks caused a pandemic.

O’Toole said the Liberal government needs to take a tougher stance against Beijing.

O’Toole said that although Canadian security agencies have long warned against research cooperation with the Chinese regime, under Trudeau’s supervision, there has been little effort to contain these links.

He criticized the government’s decision in 2017 to allow a Chinese company to acquire ITF Technologies, a high-tech company headquartered in Quebec that does business with national security agencies. The ITF sells laser technology for certain weapons.

O’Toole said that Trudeau also needs to ban the Chinese telecom giant Huawei from building Canada’s 5G network. “For many years, he has promised to take action,” O’Toole said. “This is the legacy of Justin Trudeau.”

During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party promised to “explore deeper trade relations” with China. Trudeau traveled to the country in 2017 for preliminary free trade negotiations.

After Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on the order of the United States in 2018, relations between the two countries deteriorated. The Chinese government subsequently arrested two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Cumming. The two have been detained in China for 904 days.