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have done exactly the same job as the ad
hoc committee did and we could have had
the documents three years ago the ceis
assessments released yesterday make it
clear the PRC is and was actively
recruiting top Canadian scientists to
plunder Canada's research and
intellectual property the assessments
also make clear that the PRC wants to
weaponize the civilian research for
military purposes against us and our
allies knowing what we know now will the
government halt all collaboration
between the Winnipeg National
microbiology laboratory and any entities
and individuals in the People's Republic
of
China The Honorable Minister for health
well thank you very much Mr Speaker and
uh I want to say that an attack on our
national security by Foreign Nations be
it China or Russia represents an attack
on democracy and represents a direct
attack on every member of this house and
that I share his outrage that China or
any country would attempt to interfere
in our process the public health agency
which is one of the most respected
agencies in the world hired two Canadian
citizens who are eminent eminent uh and
well-known scientists in Canada who lied
it is the public health agency that
discovered that it is the public health
agency that fired them and that's why
there's now an RCMP investigation about
their actions the documents Mr Speaker
reveal a shocking disregard for Canada's
national security they reveal a
government that is completely asleep at
the switch on National Security and the
Machinery of government they reveal
government employees collaborating with
beijing's government
and with the biological weapons unit of
the people's Liberation Army equally
shocking are the health Minister's
comments he said yesterday there is
there was no evidence of actual breaches
at the lab and no sensitive information
actually left the country the documents
say otherwise does the minister stand by
those
comments The Honorable minister of
Health Mr Speaker the two Canadian
scientists in question were well known
for their work in bology uh and had
spend uh their time working on uh uh
Health treatments for those that were
suffering from viruses uh they are
collaboration there's absolutely no
evidence of the thing that the member
officite is suggesting and I do not
think that it is it is at all
appropriate to suggest that they were
involved with weaponization or things of
this nature when we're they have all the
documents they can see all the
information they've been we have waved
all the normal considerations not only
of National Security Mr Speaker but of
uh employee relationships that normally
are kept conf idial it was our
government that did that that's why they
have this scientist working with Ebola
at Canada's only level four lab
collaborated with the People's Republic
of China Army Major General sadly the
story does not end there Dr Chu was able
to gain access to the lab for students
from China and it gets worse a scientist
from The Academy of military medical
Sciences the research arm of the pla KN
to work on biology enabled Warfare how
did so many citizens from hostile
superpower gain access to Canada's top
lab is it because the Prime Minister
admires China's basic
dictatorship The Honorable minister of
Health Mr Speaker uh some will attempt
to National Security concerns to play
partisan games I think that's
unfortunate and let me just give an
example with respect to Ebola the
exchange of Ebola in 2019 was done in
the context of trying to work with China
and other countries on finding solutions
to Ebola which exists in so many
different parts of the country at that
moment in time in 2019 the relationship
with China was in a different place the
information that was shared was through
legitimate channels it has nothing to do
with this issue it was absolutely known
and handled with complete control I
think it's very very important to not
mischaracterize National Security for
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