Posted in

Government defying order to produce documents on fired scientists from high security lab: Speaker

OTTAWA — Conservatives want to invoke a rarely used procedure to publicly rebuke the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada over his refusal to produce unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory.

Conservative House leader Gerard Deltell moved a motion Wednesday calling for PHAC to be found in contempt of Parliament and its president, Iain Stewart, to be summoned before the bar of the House to be admonished by the Speaker.


The CBC headline on the same matter is designed to obfuscate on behalf of the LPCConservatives look to use rarely-invoked tactic to rebuke head of Canada’s public health agency.

Share