In Canada, the leftist government of Justin Trudeau allowed two Chinese-born scientists to work at the nation’s most important microbiology lab and pass secrets back to China.
But that mightn’t be the worst news about the major national security breach. Conservative opposition leader and prime ministerial candidate Pierre Poilievre said that Trudeau — who admires China’s Red regime — covered up the massive security breach and called a snap election in 2021 to get reelected before the news could surface.
The big mysteries — or maybe they aren’t — are why two Chinese nationals were permitted to work in the lab, whether Trudeau knew what they were doing, and whether Trudeau himself is a Red Chinese agent or asset.
The Lab Breach
The report from a security probe of the spy operation is truly alarming.
“The hundreds of pages of reports about the two researchers, Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng, who were married and born in China, were released to the House of Commons late Wednesday after a national security review by a special parliamentary committee and a panel of three retired senior judges,” The New York Times reported:
Canadian officials, who have warned that the country’s academic and research institutions are a target of Chinese intelligence campaigns, have tightened rules around collaborating with foreign universities. Canadian universities can now be disqualified from federal funding if they enter into partnerships with any of 100 institutions in China, Russia and Iran.
The release of the documents was the subject of a prolonged debate in Parliament that began before the last federal election, in September 2021. Opposition parties asked to see the records at least four times and found the Liberal government to be in contempt of Parliament in 2021. The government filed a lawsuit in an attempt to keep the records hidden, but dropped it when the vote was called.
The release comes as the country is holding a special inquiry led by a judge to look into allegations that China and other foreign nations have interfered in Canadian elections and political parties. Some of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political opponents have charged that his government has failed to respond adequately to Chinese meddling in Canadian affairs.
But Mark Holland, the federal health minister in Canada, told reporters late Wednesday that at “no time did national secrets or information that threatened the security of Canada leave the lab.”
The two Chinese agents were booted from the lab in 2019, and fired two years later.
The report disclosed that Qiu “had not disclosed formal agreements with Chinese agencies in which a Chinese institution agreed to pay substantial amounts of research money. It also agreed to pay her an annual salary of 210,000 Canadian dollars (about $155,000).”
So Red China paid a Red Chinese national who was employed in a Canadian lab.
“The Canadian Security Intelligence Service also found that Dr. Qiu repeatedly misrepresented her ties to researchers and organizations in China, relationships it characterized as ‘close and clandestine,’” the Times continued.
As head of Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies in the lab’s pathogen program, Qiu repeatedly lied about her espionage. Her cover was blown when her name showed up on a Chinese patent linked to vaccines for the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses.
“That revelation, in turn, suggested that the couple had engaged in several violations of security rules at the laboratory, portions of which are designed for work on the world’s most lethal microbes, including ones that could be used for biological warfare,” the Times reported:
Those breaches included attempts by graduate students of Dr. Qiu at the University of Manitoba, all of whom were Chinese nationals, to remove material from the lab and being allowed to wander through the facility unescorted.
A package sent to Cheng at the lab that contained mouse proteins was labeled “kitchen utensils,” the Times reported.
As well, Qiu worked for Hebei Medical University in China.
Still, the Times reported, “exactly what information Dr. Qiu may have provided to China and how China may have used it is not clear either from the internal investigation or the intelligence agency reports.”
Reaction
Conservative candidate Poilievre laid out Trudeau’s responsibility in a news conference.
Noting that Trudeau “cannot protect our people or our country,” Poilievre said that “we learned that the Trudeau government’s head of pathogens was collaborating with members of Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army who were responsible for bioweapons and bioterrorism.”
A PLA official “was able to enter the lab, look at computers and ‘have access to all of our most important virological secrets.’”
Poilievre quoted the report:
• [Qiu] represents a serious incredible danger to the Government of Canada as a whole, and in particular at facilities considered high security due to the potential for theft of dangerous materials attractive to terrorists and foreign entities that conduct espionage to infiltrate and damage the economic security of Canada.
• Qiu communicated with foreign entities during her trips to China. The evidence obtained from interviews and from information collected from the electronic content of her devices reveal that this is indeed the case. As a subject matter expert with access to sensitive information and dangerous materials, Dr. Qiu presents a realistic and credible threat to Canada’s economic security when conducting repeated and clandestine meetings with foreign entities.
• Qiu conducted joint research with the major general Chen Wei of the People’s Liberation Army … a noted top virologist at the Academy of Military Medical Scientists [who] is China’s chief biological defense expert engaged in research related to biosafety, bio defense, and bioterrorism.
Trudeau covered up the threat and then “defied four parliamentary orders to release these documents.” He also sued the speaker of the House of Commons to stop release of the documents.
Then Trudeau tried to buy a Covid vaccine from China after learning about the espionage, Poilievre said, observing that the breach is solely Trudeau’s responsibility because his government runs the lab:
This is his government’s lab. It’s not a random University lab. It’s the top lab for the Prime Minister’s public health agency and he is exclusively responsible for the machinery of government as prime minister of the country. So this is on Justin Trudeau.… Not only did he cover it up, not only did he try to get a vaccine from China after knowing this. He called a snap election to make sure that the voting would happen before this came out. And what happened in that election? Beijing interfered to help him win it. This is a man who says he admires China’s basic Communist dictatorship.
Is Justin Trudeau a Red Agent?
Trudeau did indeed call an early election and say he admired the communist government: “There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, ‘We need to go green … we need to start investing in solar.’”
Knowing Trudeau’s admiration for China, maybe security officials should ask whether he colluded with Beijing’s Reds to put those scientists in the lab, which would explain the coverup. And with the suspected Chinese interference in the election, it appears that Trudeau has not one but two collusion scandals. Security officials must wonder if Trudeau is a Chinese asset.
Communist China isn’t Trudeau’s only model of a great society. He was a super fan of Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro. Trudeau’s statement on Castro’s death sounds like it came from a son:
It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President.
Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.
While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”.
I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba.…
We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.
Amusingly, rumors abound on the internet that Trudeau is the love child of Castro and Margaret Trudeau, who was married to the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Circumstantial evidence includes Margaret’s many affairs and Justin’s uncanny, haunting resemblance to the mass-murdering caudillo. Podcaster Joe Rogan has suggested that Trudeau take a DNA test to prove he is not Castro’s illegitimate son.
Skeptics of the theory say Margaret and Castro didn’t meet until Justin was five years old.
