Category: Scientists Fired

PHAC President Rebuked, Still Doesn’t Produce Documents on Fired Scientists

OTTAWA—Conservatives are proposing that the Public Health Agency of Canada’s offices be searched after the head of the agency refused once again to hand over unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory The move comes after PHAC president Iain Stewart appeared before the bar of the House of…


O’Toole Says National Security Committee Being Used to Cover up Scientists’ Firing

OTTAWA—Erin O’Toole says Conservatives will no longer participate in a special national security committee because it’s being used to cover up an incident that caused two scientists at Canada’s highest level security laboratory to be fired. The Conservative leader says his party’s members are withdrawing “effectively immediately” from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of…