Conservative MP John Williamson accused Hajdu and the Liberal Party of wanting to “hide” the contents of these documents because he did not speak candidly about what he called “the mistakes of the government and how you might put the security of our country at risk.” Among”.

Hajdu said that the Conservative Party’s insistence on providing documents the way they want is to “put Canada’s national security at risk” and “put privacy issues aside”.

The Conservative Party has been pushing the Liberal government-as well as the Public Health Agency of Canada-to further explain why two scientists Qiu Xiangguo and her biologist husband Kending Cheng were escorted out of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg in 2019. They were formally fired in January.

Qiu was previously responsible for the delivery of Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, but Hajdu said on Monday that these incidents were unrelated.

Hajdu said: “There is no connection between the transfer of the virus cited in the order and the subsequent departure of these employees.”

“There is no link to COVID-19.”

Epidemic origin and G7

Two weeks ago, most members of Congress passed a motion in the House of Commons asking the Trudeau government to release to the special committee unedited documents related to what happened at the National Microbiology Laboratory.

Instead, the Liberal government handed over the documents to the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Congressmen, which was specially set up by the Trudeau government to allow Congressmen to investigate classified matters.

“I have confidence in the members of the committee,” Hajdu said on Monday. “All parliamentarians from all parties have worked hard to analyze these documents and come to a conclusion that this is the right place to deal with this sensitive issue.”

The communiqué issued at the G7 summit in Cornwall this weekend called on the World Health Organization to investigate again how the pandemic started.

Once rejected by most public health experts and government officials, the view that COVID-19 was accidentally leaked from a Chinese laboratory is now under a new US investigation ordered by President Joe Biden, which is also exploring whether the virus has come from Animals infect humans.

Earlier on Monday, Hajdu stated in the House of Commons that the federal government wanted a “strong” and ongoing investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus.

“Like many countries in the world, we have always been very clear that we need to understand the origin of COVID-19, and we will work with our international partners to ensure strong and continuous investigations into the origin of the virus,” Hajdu responded to the Conservative Party When asked by MP Michael Chong.

“This is important not only to Canadians, but also to the entire world, so that we can prevent this epidemic from happening again.”