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Law firm founded by former Brampton MP Raj Grewal connected to multi-million dollar fraud investigation

Joel Wittnebel • May 13 at 8:00 PM

A pair of court cases with alarming allegations of fraud involving an allegedly improper land sale and millions of dollars in fake cheques led to Scotiabank freezing accounts belonging to a Brampton law firm founded by former MP Raj Grewal, plunging at least one local family into chaos, tying up $714,000 dollars the firm was supposed to transfer for the mortgage on a home.

The accounts of several numbered Ontario and Canadian companies have also been frozen in relation to the matters which are before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

The Pointer is investigating the names linked to the allegations of wrongdoing outlined in court documents, including the individuals behind the numbered companies.

One of the cases involves allegations that Grewal’s firm, which represented a seller in a property transaction last year, failed to transfer the funds to the company that had provided a mortgage to RSG’s client after the property was sold.

When a court injunction was requested by the company that had provided the mortgage, WIGI (a real estate management company), Justice Fred Myers granted the injunction, writing, “I can think of no honest or honourable reason for the mortgagor, its management, owners, and counsel to think they could take advantage of what had to be an error and ignore the VTB (Vendor Take Back mortgage) that they knew and acknowledged had to be paid out using the proceeds of sale of the secured land.”

He continued, addressing the entities RSG represented in the transaction: “On the evidence before me, the mortgagor and its directors have assets in Ontario. I infer from their seemingly intentional and dishonest scheme that there is a serious risk they will dissipate the proceeds of sale referable to the plaintiff’s VTB security.”

Grewal is a former Brampton MP who resigned in 2019 after he publicly declared a gambling addiction had led to “significant personal debts”. In September 2020 Grewal was charged by the RCMP with fraud and breach of trust during his time as an MP. In March 2023, Grewal was found not guilty of using his MP position to solicit loans to cover his debts, but the case exposed his disturbing behaviour while serving as an elected official and frequenting an Ottawa casino, when he said a gambling addiction influenced many bad decisions.

Grewal is not named in any of the court documents The Pointer reviewed. He did not respond to questions sent this week.

Nitan Waryah, a Brampton resident, told The Pointer a $714,000 transfer from his lawyer to RSG was made on April 15 for a real estate transaction, but it remains frozen in the RSG account after Scotiabank locked the law firm’s trust account, tying up much of his parents’ life savings.

On Friday, May 8, he was given assurances by Grewal personally that he would deal with the matter. In the same breath, during the same phone conversation, Grewal claimed to Waryah that he had sold RSG Law two years ago and is no longer involved in the day-to-day operations.

Then, two days later, on Sunday May 10, Grewal called Waryah, reassuring him the matter would be resolved by the coming Friday, May 15.

The firm name, RSG, stands for Rajvinder Singh Grewal, the former MP’s full name.

Waryah questions why Grewal would tell him he has nothing to do with RSG Law anymore.

“If that was the case, why would he be the one calling me, assuring me he would be the one to take care of it by Friday?” Waryah said.

Grewal did not respond this week when asked about his status with RSG.

Lawyers for RSG declined to comment on the specifics of the allegations made in the court filings as the matters are still going through the judicial process, but claimed the transactions responsible for freezing the company’s account “did not originate with RSG or its clients”.

“(Scotiabank) has traced funds from those transactions and has alleged that some of the funds may have ended up with RSG in connection with different transactions, which RSG had no reason to doubt were legitimate,” Simon Bieber, a lawyer with Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP, explained in a statement on behalf of RSG. “There does not appear to be any sort of allegation by BNS (Scotiabank) that RSG was involved in any misconduct and RSG has instead been caught up in an unfortunate set of circumstances.”

Bieber also declined to comment on Grewal’s current relationship to RSG, the law firm he founded. When The Pointer followed up on those questions, Bieber said he would not be answering because “there is nothing to address.”

“None of the Court proceedings have anything to do with Mr. Grewal, there are no allegations about him and that you’ve raised questions about Mr. Grewal (when none of the parties have) is concerning. I need to be absolutely clear that any reporting that impugns the reputation of Mr. (Davinder) Khattra [a lawyer with RSG], Mr. Grewal or RSG Law will attract a response. I have cautioned about statements that are potentially defamatory and reiterate that now.”

In a paid article that appeared in the Toronto Star this past July, Grewal represented himself as RSG’s leader. Describing the unique business model of RSG Law, the sponsored article, published July 15 2025, reported this was “Raj Grewal’s vision for RSG Law.” It later includes a quote by Grewal: “We aim to be the last law firm a client ever needs.”

As recently as December, the RSG website featured an image of Grewal and described him as the company’s principal lawyer.

Sometime prior to the end of January, Grewal’s name and image were removed from the RSG website, months after the property sale involving WIGI in June of 2025, which triggered the company’s eventual legal action against RSG.

Grewal is also listed as the President of RSG Group, a separate entity from RSG Law, which shares the same address in Mississauga.

Google Reviews of RSG Law, some posted as recently as two months ago, mention Grewal by name, and thank him for his work.

On Wednesday, May 13, Waryah wrote his own Google Review outlining his current situation and uploaded the court documents to the review detailing the allegations against RSG and the injunctions filed against it. Immediately after he posted his negative review and linked the court documents a series of five star reviews appeared for RSG which included similar wording and praise for the company.

Then, earlier today, on May 14, it appears RSG Law deleted its Google account or stopped sharing its reviews publicly as they have all now vanished from the search engine.

Nitan Waryah says Raj Grewal told him he sold RSG Law two years ago and is no longer involved in the day-to-day operations. Google reviews captured this week, in May, from as recently as two months ago suggest Grewal was still working at RSG.

As recently as December, the RSG website featured an image of Grewal and labelled him as the company’s principal lawyer.

Grewal is also listed as the President of RSG Group, a separate entity from RSG Law, but one that shares the same address in Mississauga.

Raj Grewal is listed as the President of RSG Group, which shares the same Mississauga address as RSG Law.

The Pointer confirmed that Grewal told Nitan Waryah this week that he is no longer involved with RSG Law, but his claim was confusing as it came during the same conversation when Grewal assured Waryah that the matter involving RSG would be personally handled and resolved by him this week.

Grewal did not respond to emails or questions left at his office.

According to court documents, on April 23, WIGI Restructured Bond Corporation, was granted an injunction to have bank accounts of RSG, three officials of an Ontario numbered company, and other third parties, frozen after a piece of land on which it held a $3.6 million mortgage was sold in June last year (WIGI had owned the property previously then provided the mortgage to the entity that purchased it from the real estate company). When the entity later sold the property it failed to pay off the remaining balance owing to WIGI.

The location of the land is not mentioned in the court document. It was sold to a numbered company in 2022 that had received a Vendor Take Back (VTB) mortgage from WIGI, an agreement that sees the seller of the land act as a lender.

RSG represented the seller that was supposed to pay back the mortgage amount to WIGI. RSG never transferred the amount. It’s unclear if the funds were ever made available to RSG.

According to the court documents, Davinder Khattra, a lawyer with RSG, committed to WIGI in March 2025 that the mortgage funds would be paid out by mid-June. Then in May, Khattra said the payout would be pushed to September 2025.

According to the court records, the land was sold in June without notifying WIGI and the funds to pay off the WIGI mortgage were never sent.

In granting the injunction requested by WIGI, Justice Myers said he could think of “no honest or honourable reason” the transaction was carried out the way it was, labelling it a “seemingly intentional and dishonest scheme.”

“(WIGI) submits as soon as the directors of the mortgagor and their counsel decided to proceed with a sale without recognizing the VTB, that they had already acknowledged recently to the plaintiff, they made the mortgagor single purpose company an instrument of their fraudulent design. While it is not clear what purpose they had to ask to extend the date of the VTB to September, a suspicious person might suggest that they were buying time to deflect attention and perhaps move the money,” Justice Myers wrote in his court order.

As part of the injunction granted by Justice Myers, RSG and the other companies involved were ordered to provide information about the land deal and how the mortgage would be repaid within 48 hours of the order on April 23, last month. This did not happen.

After a hearing on May 1, Justice Myers described the lack of action as “unusual and, frankly, quite troubling”.

RSG is named as one of the defendants.

“None of the defendants have yet to provide any of the information required of them under the court’s order…I am very concerned that the law firm has yet to provide any of the information sought. It has not confirmed if it froze any of its trust funds as ordered. It has not disclosed what it did with the funds it received that ought to have been referrable to the plaintiff’s mortgage. It has let days go by for funds to be moved again if someone were inclined to do so,” Justice Myers wrote. “No one put in any evidence today. There was not even a one-line denial of liability or explanation.”

In a decision on May 4, Justice Myers reported that RSG provided documents showing how the money from the land sale had been paid out to the numbered company and several other entities.

With the information, Justice Myers ruled the injunction should be extended beyond the normal 10-day period due to the seriousness of the allegations.

“The Plaintiff has established a strong prima facie case against the lawyers in conspiracy, conversion and knowledge receipt, if not deceit,” Justice Myers ruled. “Given the strong appearance of dishonesty in this case, it is just and convenient to hold funds presumptively subject to proof that they are trust funds belonging to others.”

When asked whether further documents have been provided to the courts following the May 4 order, Bieber, the lawyer representing RSG, said the firm is “addressing each of the matters before the Court with the parties to the proceeding and in compliance with the Court orders.”

While the WIGI case continued to unfold without a resolution, RSG was connected to a separate injunction requesting its accounts be frozen.

On April 28, Scotiabank requested a court order against RSG and several other numbered companies after millions of dollars in fraudulent cheques were issued, two of them ending up in the accounts of RSG.

The fake cheques originated with Brampton law firm Rajkiran Sidhu Law Professional Corporation (RSL), which deposited three cheques worth $6,095,000 into a trust account at the Bank of Nova Scotia on April 14. The Pointer was unable to contact RSL. A reporter visited two addresses listed as the headquarters of RSL, but neither were occupied by the company.

The cheques were immediately flagged by the bank as this was “out of keeping with the ‘usual’ pace of activity in this trust account for a sole practitioner,” the court order details.

A lawyer for Scotiabank declined to comment.

The cheques had the appearance of legitimacy with encoding and a watermark banner, but further investigation on April 15 by Scotiabank and TD, where the cheques originated, revealed they were drawn from fake accounts and two of the businesses named on them did not exist.

“TD advised the same day that it had no record of any accounts matching the accounts upon which the cheques had purportedly been drawn. The cheques were completely fraudulent,” the April 28 injunction details.

Through a series of wire transfers and deposits, some of the proceeds of the fraudulent cheques ended up in the accounts of RSG.

The injunction requested by Scotiabank makes no allegations of wrongdoing against RSG. Bieber says RSG had no reason to doubt the transactions were fraudulent.

The RSL money was immediately wired to five different entities. Two of these allegedly then transferred the funds to RSG.

On April 14, $1,414,000 was transferred from RSL to a numbered company. The same day, RSG deposited a cheque of an almost identical value ($1,410,000) from the same numbered company.

Also on April 14, RSL wired $2.6 million to another Ontario numbered company. The next day, the same company deposited $1,947,000 into the RSG Scotiabank account.

According to the injunction request by Scotiabank, RSG provided redacted documents “purporting to show” that the money from the first transaction was used to fund a loan from a borrower whose name was not disclosed.

“No continuing activity in the RSG trust appears to show the advance of such funds to the unknown borrower,” the court order by Justice Sean Dunphy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reports. “The Applicant (Scotiabank) has not yet recovered these funds nor received information from RSG sufficient to determine what portion, if any of the funds in the RSG trust account may be traced to the RSL wire transfer of the proceeds of the fraudulent cheques”.

While accepting the injunction and freezing the accounts of RSG and RSL, Justice Dunphy made no determination of wrongdoing.

“RSL’s trust account was clearly the instrument of fraud whether knowingly or otherwise,” his ruling highlights.

Nitan Waryah and his family are stuck in the middle of the ongoing legal saga. On the same day the fraudulent cheques were being dispersed, Waryah was closing on the sale of his parents home.

“My dad recently went blind due to some health challenges and my parents could no longer afford to own the house they are living in. I was buying my parents house and they were going to move into a smaller space and rent it as it’s easier for my dad to move around due to him being blind,” he told The Pointer in an email.

RSG was representing his parents in the sale, and it seems when Nitan Waryah sent the $714,000 for the purchase of the home, the money was soon frozen inside the accounts of RSG. It has left his parents paying the $514,000 mortgage, preventing them from receiving the $200,000 profit from the sale and Nitan is now paying a separate $840,000 mortgage on the same property.

Bieber says RSG is working to rectify all the issues and ensure the Waryah family receives their money.

After repeated assurances from Grewal himself, which went nowhere, and claims that he isn’t even involved with the law firm that bears his initials, Nitan is now taking matters into his own hands.

“I’ve filed a police report and retained a lawyer now to try and get our money back.”

Email: joel.wittnebel@thepointer.com

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More Indian Migrant Truck Drivers Caught Trafficking Drugs Across Border with Canada

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More Indian Migrant Truck Drivers Caught Trafficking Drugs Across Border with Canada

(Photo by Denis BRIHAT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Denis BRIHAT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Warner Todd Huston

16 Jan 202526

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More Indian migrants licensed as Canadian truck drivers are being arrested by U.S. authorities for smuggling dangerous drugs through the United States.

The growing role of Indian truckers is another problem imposed by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invite millions of poor Indians to live in once-prosperous Canada.

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The latest, Amarjeet Singh Matharu, a migrant from India to the greater Toronto area, was nabbed by Arizona State Troopers on Monday as he drove his semi on Interstate 40 near Holbrook, according to the Toronto Sun.

Officials say Matharu was caught with 550 pounds of cocaine hidden behind his load of produce headed to Canada. The drugs were reportedly picked up in the Los Angeles and Salinas, California, area.

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He is far from the only Indian national from Canada arrested in the U.S. Officials also arrested many other truckers out of Canada including, Sukhraj Singh, 22, of Caledon; Sukjindr Singh, 29, of Peel Region; Naseeb Chisty, 49, of Etobicoke; Jasbir Singh, 40, of Paris, Ontario; Arshdeep Singh, 23, of Quebec City; Juli Sabosan Sathiaseelan, 42; and Gagandeep Singh among others.

Last year, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced a wide-ranging investigation into a ring of criminals from India that had gone on a terror spree across the country to silence those criticizing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi or supporting his opponents.

In one particular incident, these accused criminals allegedly fired fourteen bullets into a home near Victoria and then torched the place.

Ultimately, six diplomatic and consular officials posted at India’s foreign missions in Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver were identified as being involved in the criminal conspiracy and they were expelled from the country and sent back to India.

But Canada has been beset with an increase in human smuggling from India that has brought in an increasing number of criminals from the Asian nation.

In one high profile case from November, an Indian national and an American were convicted of human smuggling in an incident that led to the deaths of a family from India that had been abandoned at the Canadian border near Minnesota. The family perished during a blizzard in 2022 as they attempted to walk into Canada while avoiding legal ports of entry.

The problem is not Canada’s alone. It was also reported in November that the U.S. has seen a ten-fold increase of Indian nationals who had entered Canada illegally, also trying to enter the U.S. from Canada. There are already more than 725,000 Indians living illegally in the U.S.A.

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Two More White Victims of Trudeau’s Replacement Immigration Policy: Bumbling Mounties Let Killer Go

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Former prosecutor says trucker could have been arrested, RCMP disagree

[Navjeet Singh went through a stop sign in in Altona, Manitoba. Shades of another Sikh who did the same thing in Humbolt, Saskatchewan, and wiped out 1 members of the tiny community’s hockey team. This Singh killed two. — beautiful Sara Unger and her daughter Alexa. Driver Navjeet Singh was apprehended at the scene. He was shaken up. The bumbling Mounties did not detain him. He’s since fled. Of course, nobody knows nuffin. It turns out we don’t even know if he’s a Canadian citizen. Thanks, Justin.]

Search continues for man wanted on Canada-wide warrant after highway death of mother, daughter

Tyler Searle By: Tyler Searle Posted:

A former Crown prosecutor says Manitoba RCMP likely could have arrested a semi-truck driver now wanted on Canada-wide warrant, but police argue it wouldn’t have stopped the man from leaving before they pressed charges.

Mounties continued the search Friday for 25-year-old Navjeet Singh, who was charged Wednesday in a fatal collision that killed Sara Unger, 35, and her eight-year-old Alexa Unger.

“I think anybody looking back on this turn of events on this case might say, ‘Well, wasn’t it foreseeable, wasn’t it predictable that this could have happened?’” said former prosecutor Brandon Trask.

Navjeet Singh is wanted by RCMP in connection with the fatal crash. (Supplied)
Navjeet Singh is wanted by RCMP in connection with the fatal crash. (Supplied)

“I would be concerned if people in the public are left with the impression that police don’t have the ability to arrest somebody if they’ve got a belief based on reasonable grounds that an individual had committed an offence.”

Police allege Singh was driving a semi-trailer that blew a stop sign at an intersection near Altona and struck the Ungers’ SUV on Nov. 15.

Singh was taken to hospital after the crash and officers attempted to interview him, but he was too shaken up to provide a statement. Investigators scheduled a meeting with him later but he failed to show up, RCMP Sgt. Paul Manaigre said.

A warrant was issued for his arrest, but Singh had not been seen by police for two days as of Friday evening. It is unclear whether he remains in Winnipeg, or may have fled the province.

Manaigre said officers did not detain Singh at the hospital because they were not within their legal rights. The investigation was ongoing and police were not prepared to lay charges, he said.

Trask, who teaches law at the University of Manitoba, said eyewitness statements and preliminary evidence collected from an accident or crime scene can form the basis for an arrest. Officers can then detain a person for up to 24 hours as they continue to gather evidence and prepare charges, he said.

Police said early on that charges were anticipated in the crash, which happened at the intersection of provincial roads 201 and 306. A witness travelling behind the Ungers’ SUV told investigators the semi-truck appeared to be travelling at high speed.

Manaigre defended RCMP’s decision not to arrest Singh immediately, saying officers had no indication he would be a flight risk.

“Hindsight is always 20-20. When you look at, ‘OK, now he is running,’ Well, then of course we should have detained him, but when you can’t get information from the driver at the hospital … we can’t talk to him.”

He said it is not uncommon for people involved in accidents to be given time to recover from shock before they provide a statement to investigators.

“You’ll need probably those few days for your mind to come out of it and then hopefully you’ll start recollecting events, which is what you want,” Manaigre said. “If we actually went and arrested him, well now you’re starting the 24-hour clock and you’ve got 24 hours to deal with him. He has to be released or taken into custody … You haven’t accomplished anything.”

SUPPLIED Sara Unger, 35, and her eight-year-old daughter Alexa Unger, who lived in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland, were killed at the intersection of provincial roads 201 and 306, shortly after 7 p.m. November 15. RCMP said a tractor-trailer did not stop at a stop sign while travelling east on PR 201.
SUPPLIED Sara Unger, 35, and her eight-year-old daughter Alexa Unger, who lived in the Rural Municipality of Rhineland, were killed at the intersection of provincial roads 201 and 306, shortly after 7 p.m. November 15. RCMP said a tractor-trailer did not stop at a stop sign while travelling east on PR 201.

Manaigre said it may have been possible to arrest and charge Singh before having to release him, but such a move could compromise the case against him later on if it was rushed.

“I’d rather do things properly at the beginning,” he said.

Winnipeg defence lawyer Scott Newman said police often seek the opinion of an accident re-constructionist before determining whether a collision was criminal. Such examinations can include mechanical inspections of a vehicle and a review of the scene, he said.

Newman said it is too early to say for certain whether Singh is intentionally evading police.

“I have to be cautious because I don’t know what evidence the police had,” he said.

“I can imagine where if somebody gets out of an accident … you might want to go and see your family, you may want to go and see a lawyer and get legal advice from somebody you trust in your home community. I don’t think this is a situation where we can say he’s fled the country.”

Police said Singh holds a valid Ontario driver’s licence. They did not confirm whether he is a Canadian citizen.

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Tough Talk Needed on Border Issues

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Tough talk needed on border issues

“Lay low for 14 days and you’re in as an illegal”

  • National Post
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • JAMIE SARKONAK
With the threat of mass deportations from the U.S., and a policy in Canada that allows unauthorized residents to claim asylum should they lay low for 14 days, it’s only rational for would-be claimants to try, Jamie Sarkonak says.

Currently, as the rules stand, migrants from the United States can cross into Canada, wait two weeks, and become eligible to file a refugee claim here. The northern border sure must be looking like a home-free line, now that Donald Trump has been elected on a promise to carry out mass deportations of illegal migrants.

So, if there was ever a time Canada needed to send a very loud, very public, “no more Mr. Nice Guy” message to economically motivated asylum seekers — firm messaging backed up by policy changes to ward their numbers off — it’s right now.

The numbers are already too high. Last year, nearly 150,000 people staked refugee claims here, rendering us the fifth-largest destination for asylum seekers that year. Two years’ worth of asylum claims are inching their way through the immigration system, many of these from friendly not-at-war countries that have no business sending us thousands of refugees.

India, Nigeria, and Mexico are where the largest number of claims come from, but there are many others that shouldn’t be sending refugees our way. Each successful applicant — from friendly, at-peace countries — is a potential online advertisement for immigration services online; that is, potential inspiration for others looking to claim refugee status. Of course, many of these claimants aren’t actually in danger, as required by law, and are willing to travel home, prompting immigration consultants to make warnings against doing so.

With the threat of mass deportations from the U.S., and a policy in Canada that allows unauthorized residents to claim asylum should they lay low for 14 days, it’s only rational for would-be claimants to try. It could very well be a painful squeeze — the U.S. received 1.2 million asylum claims last year alone, and some fraction of that number can be expected to divert to the north come 2025.

The trek to Canada will be a rational one for many. To observers on the outside, we’re the country that welcomes everyone, hands out bags of free food, offers free care, has loads of jobs to fill along with land, oh so much land. We know this isn’t actually how Canada works, but they don’t.

Seriously. Extensive immigration influencer videos have advertised Canadian “free food” to those abroad, which have no doubt made this country a more attractive place to attempt asylum. Rent is often covered by the Canadian tax base as the wait for claim adjudication drags on — which ultimately puts low-income Canadians in competition with migrants for housing. Some also end up competing with homeless Canadians, taking up critical space in shelters from Vancouver to Toronto.

MANY OF THESE CLAIMANTS AREN’T ACTUALLY IN DANGER.

In health care, it’s a similar problem. These populations strain the health-care system: the Star reported last week that “Midwives and physicians in emergency departments said they’re seeing significantly more uninsured clients accessing care at later stages of a complicated pregnancy or an already developed cancer or AIDS.” The uninsured being, in part, migrants who are in Canada illegally. Bad deal for us, good deal for them.

Between rosy influencer advertising and borders-open messaging from our own Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a lot more needs to be done to reverse the perception that Canada is a welcome home for economic “refugees.”

The incoming Trump administration has been strong out of the gate in turning around the perception of the United States as a bottomless bread basket of free amenities. Federal and state governments have rolled out unauthorized-friendly initiatives for a while now: feds have done their best to soften deportation rules, and some state governments have offered perks like pre-paid debit cards for migrants, as well as free rent. But Trump’s messaging has been clear that deportations are coming, and his border-enforcer-to-be, Tom Homan, is just as forceful: “You better start packing now, cause you’re going home,” Homan told a crowd earlier this year.

We haven’t been so firm. Visitor visa rules were tightened this week, but the home-free-in-twoweeks line remains in place.

Most of our country’s messaging includes tepid inward-facing assurances that everything is under control. The faceless blob that is the Canadian administrative state says there’s nothing to worry about: the RCMP learned from post-2016 migration which “provided us with the tools and insight necessary to address similar types of occurrences.” The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says, “we are ready to respond and adapt as needed.”

Homan, meanwhile, isn’t raving about our competency, stating in a recent TV interview that the northern border is an “extreme national security vulnerability” and that “tough conversations” are soon to be had with Canada.

Meanwhile, Immigration Minister Marc Miller is nonchalant, telling the Globe and Mail: “We will always be acting in the national interest and those measures that we move to undertake, regardless of what decision is taken by the new administration, to make sure that our borders are secure, that people that are coming to Canada do so in a regular pathway, and the reality that not everyone is welcome here.”

Well, that sure sends a message. “Not everyone is welcome here.”

Each statement from Canadian officials has the same bland, inoffensive lack of substance that could only come from either a comms department trained to generate few words of meaning or an AI text generator. None are backed by the force of strong, loophole-closing policy change.

Miller’s job right now isn’t just to soothe Canadians with words as bland as beige walls. He has to dispel years of false impressions of Canadian life inspired by a multitude of enthusiastic foreign-language Youtube and Tiktok howto vlogs about immigration, with rhetoric and hard policy. Right now, he’s falling short.

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Incompetence, Stupidity, Sinophilia? Red Chinese Agents Penetrated Canada’s Top Secret Biolab, DESPITE Repeated Warnings from CSIS

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Jamie Sarkonak: Canada still hasn’t learned from Winnipeg-Wuhan lab incident

New Commons report wisely recommends blacklisting the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its researchers from receiving Canadian funding

(amie Sarkonak, National Post, November 8, 2024)

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An image of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory.
An image of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory. Photo by Photo Courtesy of the National Microbiology Laboratory

Canadian public health authorities didn’t have to let the Wuhan Institute of Virology infiltrate and co-opt our country’s highest-security biolab. The warning signs had been there for years, and no one to our knowledge was holding a gun to the heads of the rubber-stampers who authorized a security-threat-flagged scientist’s shipment of live Ebola back to the motherland.

That’s part of why the latest report from the House of Commons committee on China, released Tuesday (conveniently, on the day of the American presidential election), is such a puzzling read. Though a lot of the information contained within has previously trickled into public knowledge, through reporting, committee hearings and released records, the Commons committee’s synthesis shows how Canadian authorities reacted with the haste of a slug — and continue to leave gaping holes in the security of research that can literally be weaponized against human health.

The report sets out a comedy of errors that preceded the 2019 expulsion of scientists Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng, both Canadian citizens from China working at the Winnipeg National Microbiology Lab, who were ousted for “administrative” reasons.

The husband-wife pair was hired back in 2003 and 2006, respectively, but a decade later began showing suspicious links to Chinese research programs. In 2012, wife Qiu began collaborating with a Chinese military virologist specializing in “bio-defence and bio-terrorism.”

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In 2016, she was nominated by a Chinese military official for an “International Cooperation Award,” which nodded to her work with the military bioweapons expert and stated that she “used Canada’s Level 4 Biosecurity Laboratory as a base to assist China to improve its capability to fight highly pathogenic pathogens … and achieved brilliant results.” She published a paper with military-linked colleagues sometime afterward, and became a visiting professor at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences working on infectious disease — a position that she left out of her English CV.

In 2017, PHAC greenlit Qiu to travel to Beijing for a conference — but from there, unbeknownst to PHAC, she travelled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to present on Ebola vaccines. Later that year, PHAC approved Qiu to train others at the Wuhan lab. Around this time or later, via the Wuhan lab, she applied for the Chinese government’s Thousand Talents Program which incentivizes members to clandestinely send overseas research back to China.

After Qiu signed up, the suspicious activity accelerated. In February 2018, she brought over an employee from the Wuhan lab to join her at the Winnipeg lab. In April, she returned to China to “visit family,” with travel expenses paid for by a Chinese biotech firm. In May, Cheung received protein samples from China labelled “kitchen utensils.”

In April 2018, Qiu and Cheung were finally flagged as possible insider threats after CSIS briefed PHAC on foreign interference.

The warning made its way up the chain at a snail’s pace: PHAC’s national security found a suspicious Chinese patent including Qiu in September; the PHAC president was briefed in December, and ordered a private firm to investigate. The private firm tasked with the job concluded in March 2019 that more investigations were needed (duh). PHAC leadership contemplated an internal investigation and finally called the RCMP in May. CSIS began investigations in June.

In July, the scientists were finally kicked out of the lab.

During the entire time that authorities were groggily waking up to the idea that these top scientists might be working as agents for a foreign government, the scientists accelerated their pace. Qiu flew back to the Wuhan lab — with PHAC’s approval — where she was now a “visiting research scientist.” Qiu’s staff recruit from Wuhun was caught trying to sneak tubes out of the Winnipeg lab. The Winnipeg security began noticing a suspicious number of visitors walking around the lab unattended. Cheng tried to enter the lab with another employee’s passcode. Qiu shipped a live sample of Ebola back to the Wuhan lab — again, with PHAC’s approval.

The final stages of a fatal Ebola infection (that is, about half of all Ebola infections) involve profusely bleeding from one’s eyes, nose, mouth and rectum. It’s absolutely not the kind of virus you want getting into the wrong hands, say, those of an unfriendly government whose modified virus experiments have been “credibly suggested” to have escaped from its labs.

Nevertheless, it was only after the scientists’ exile that a CSIS investigation determined that their continued presence at the Winnipeg lab would pose a national security threat. They were formally fired in 2021, and have since disappeared to who knows where — yes, they were permitted to leave the country after the debacle.

The entire period of infiltration was lined with an attitude of nonchalance by government officials who appeared at the China committee. The Winnipeg lab director at the time defended the lab’s slow response by stating that neither CSIS nor PHAC advised him to kick the scientists out; he handwaved approving the Ebola-by-mail. The PHAC president justified the long timeline with the thoroughness of the investigation.

Only former CSIS director Richard Fadden was the voice of reason: “too long,” was his assessment of the kicking-out.

On the health and research side, the passive attitude seems to go all the way up to the top. Security-wise, Canada brought in a new research policy in January 2024 restricting government funding from supporting research on “sensitive technology” (weapons, surveillance, AI, space, etc.) with any connection to certain suspicious research organizations.

The list of collaborators banned from receiving Canadian funding includes only Chinese, Russian and Iranian schools and military units. Not on the list, however, is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has already benefitted from exploited Canadian research once. It’s also known for possibly being the place that accidentally started a pandemic by letting COVID out of the lab, which doesn’t inspire confidence when it comes to handling our mail-in Ebola.

The House of Commons China committee is wisely recommending that the Wuhan lab be added to the list of research collaborators ineligible for Canadian taxpayer support, and, more wisely, the end to all government research teamwork with China on sensitive matters.

It’s further recommended that Canada come up with a list of “trusted” countries which will be the sole permitted recipients of highly dangerous live viruses that could kill millions if unleashed. Because, it turns out, we didn’t have one.

But under all this is a problem that’s going to take more than a committee to solve. Careless lab directors can still allow suspicious lab staff to send live pathogen samples to unfriendly countries. Research dollars can be siphoned off to support places like the Wuhan lab. Half-measures and painstakingly laggy responses are endemic to this government, and this weakness will continue to make us a prime target.

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Liberals Inject Systemic Self-Hatred Into The Canadian Military

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Government, Media, Education. Now, the Canadian military falls to the purveyors of systemic self-hatred. All of it one giant coincidence, eh?

Consistent among revolutionary leaders of the 20th century, cultural transition existed as a core element. No finer example can be offered up than the “Cultural Revolution” as conceived by Chairman Mao Tse Tung of China.
Frank Dikötter, author of a book on the period, wrote that “Mao hoped his movement would make China the pinnacle of the socialist universe and turn him into the man who leads planet Earth into communism.”

Obfuscated by Canadian media is the idea that PM Justin Trudeau is indulging in a similar tactic, albeit in “post-modern” form.

Revolutionary success relies on penetration of a nation’s key social institutions. Government, naturally, as well as media, education, armed forces and other core elements are targeted for transformation away from their previous incarnations.

On this basis, let us consider Justin Trudeau’s “Woke Revolution.”

Slow-and-steady she goes as Canada’s controlling institutions are re-imagined in post-modern fashion.  Over the course of Trudeau’s eight-year reign, legacy media has been re-configured into a composite of government-funded propaganda outlets.

Canadian academia were converted well before Trudeau’s tenure, as exemplified by neo-Marxist application of anti-colonialism, critical race theory, in addition anti-Anglophone animus.

On this basis, it was only a matter to time before the globalist propaganda machine began to penetrate the Canadian military:
“Veterans 4 Freedom president Drew MacGillivray and member Tom Marazzo reacted to an exclusive report by True North News revealing that a vast majority of the latest issue of the Canadian Military Journal was devoted to disparaging whiteness and claiming that the Canadian Armed Forces was founded on racism.”

Patriots stand witness as Liberal government targeting of white Canadians is forcefully injected into our military. In reality, it was only a matter of time.

“Both Marazzo and MacGillivray have a history of service in the military, holding the ranks of captain and lieutenant (Navy), respectively.”

“I find it completely offensive, to be perfectly honest,” said Marazzo.

What a shock this is. Since its founding, Anglo-Europeans have dominated the demography of the CAF.  Now, here comes Justin Trudeau and his socialist gang of assassins to degrade its denizens.

“The latest summer edition of the journal featured articles with titles such as ‘I’m Not Your Typical White Soldier’– Interrogating Whiteness and Power in the Canadian Armed Forces” and “Supporting Military Families: Challenging or Reinforcing Patriarchy?”

See how the Canada-haters roll? Government, Academia, Media, Corporations, Military– roughly in that order. We recognize parallels to the application of revolutionary socialism in the previous century.
Chief among them is China, a country lauded not just by Justin Trudeau, but by Pierre Trudeau before him, as well as brother Alexandre Trudeau.
“Most of the issue’s authors were academics who argued that the solution to perceived problems of racism and ‘whiteness’ in the military was a program of re-education based on woke principles and ideas.”
The surprise of the century this is– not. Enter reverse-racism into the ranks of our military. As rancid as it is, in truth, it’s only half the story.

The other element comes in the form of LGBT indoctrination. Communist governments cannot keep their hands off any major societal institution, and the Liberals are the same.

“October is recognized internationally as LGBT History Month. We encourage the entire Defence Team, from recruits and new hires to senior leadership, to take some time this month to reflect on the contributions of past and present 2SLGBTQI+ Defence Team.”

“This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the settlement of Michelle Douglas’ historic lawsuit against the Department of National Defence (DND), marking the official end to the ban on 2SLGBTQI+ members in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).”

One of the most successful tactics utilized by socialist revolutionaries is the de-contextualizing of history. Rhetorical messaging from the Liberal government spins “homophobia” accordingly. Canada, both as a nation and from a military perspective, is in no respect unique in this capacity.

Homosexuality was considered a crime from the colonial period in Canada until 1969. In Britain, decriminalization of homosexuality occurred in 1967. In 1961, the United States began to decriminalize same-sex sexual activity.

Not that you will be hearing about this from Canada’s uber-powerful pride pushers. They want what government want– a verdict of culpability in its most egregious form. The same is to be applied to accusations of racism.

So now, the Canadian military is racist, and well as homophobic. After which Cultural Action Party offer a pertinent question:
Why are you people running down our military? Aren’t these the folks that our citizenship relies on to defend our country? Is this situation not an example of government attacking their own?”

Of course it is, because it’s what occurs within a country whose strings are being pulled toward societal dissolution, to be followed by a re-configuration of nation identity in totality.

Just as Mao Tse Tung perpetrated in China. As Joseph Stalin did during the period of the Russian Revolution. Our media say nothing— just as the press did in China, and the USSR.

“Although we can never undo the pain caused by the LGBT Purge, the Canada Pride Citation is an opportunity to recognize the harm experienced by current and former Canadian Armed Forces members,” said General (Gen) Wayne Eyre, Chief of the Defence Staff. “

We come to recognize the hi-jacking of Canadian society. Systemically, Trudeau and the Liberals are poisoning Canada’s controlling institutions by way of anti-Canadian animus.

“The Canada Pride Citation is one way the Government of Canada has taken action to address the historical injustices experienced by LGBT military members, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and federal public servants.”
Government, Media, Education. Now, the Canadian military falls to the purveyors of systemic self-hatred.

All of it one giant coincidence, eh?
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Chinese Employee of Hydro Quebec Arrested for Economic Espionage

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Chinese Employee of Hydro Quebec Arrested for Economic Espionage

Below are details of the arrest in mid-November of a Hydro Quebec employee, one Yuesheng Wang for spying — economic espionage — for Red China. Interestingly, he wasn’t caught by the Mounties — the Mounties don’t ‘always get their man” — but by Hydro Quebec security. Charles Burton, a former professor of Political Science at Brock University and now a Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute told Toronto 1010 Talk Radio (November 16): “Canada doesn’t have the resources or political will to root out” Red Chinese espionage.

“A former employee of Hydro-Québec made a first appearance in court Tuesday on charges that he fraudulently obtained a trade secret for the benefit of China, and he was ordered to remain detained ahead of a bail hearing. Yuesheng Wang, 35, appeared in Quebec court in Longueuil by videoconference and was assisted by a translator. Wang was detained at the RCMP’s headquarters in Montreal.

The resident of Candiac, on Montreal’s South Shore, is the first person in Canada to be charged with economic espionage under the Security of Information Act. Wang was also formally charged on Tuesday with three violations of the Criminal Code: using a computer fraudulently and without authorization; obtaining a trade secret by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means; and breach of trust.

Federal prosecutor Marc Cigana objected to bail in Wang’s case.“It’s our opinion, after studying all the circumstances and the evidence, that Mr. Wang is a flight risk,” Cigana told reporters after the court hearing.

Wang is alleged to have committed the crimes between Jan. 1, 2018 and Aug. 22, 2022, in the course of his duties at Hydro-Québec. Three of the four charges each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The breach of trust charge carries a maximum five-year sentence. The RCMP alleges that Wang conducted research for Chinese research centres and a Chinese university and that he published scientific articles and filed patents with them rather than with the Quebec utility. Police also alleged he used information without his employer’s consent, harming Hydro-Québec’s intellectual property.

The RCMP said its national security enforcement team began an investigation in August after receiving a complaint from Hydro-Québec’s corporate security branch.

Wang, who has a limited knowledge of English and does not speak French, shook his head as the charges were translated into Mandarin for him in court on Tuesday.[Little English; no French — how did this guy get into Canada? Who specifically — the bureaucrats name, please — was responsible?]He tried to have his bail hearing held immediately, but was advised by his lawyer to delay. Quebec court Judge Anne-Marie Beauchemin ordered Wang remanded to a detention centre.

 The case was put off until Friday, when more evidence will be disclosed and when the parties will discuss scheduling a bail hearing. Neither lawyer could say following Tuesday’s hearing whether Wang has Canadian citizenship. [Isn’t that a rather important point?]

Wesley Wark, an expert on national security and intelligence issues, said the Wang case isn’t the first economic espionage incident in the country but is the first case that has led to charges under the 21-year-old Security of Information Act. Wark, a senior fellow at the think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation, said the case is “unusual.” …

‘It takes us into the world of university research and university publications, and it’s an important area to wade into, but also very complex in terms of being able to then reach back and pin an economic espionage charge against him.’  The definition of “trade secret” is very broad, Wark said, which may make the case difficult to prove in court. He said the charges demonstrate that much of the espionage activity in Canada is occurring outside the orbit of the federal government and within the private sector.

Hydro-Québec said Wang was a researcher who worked on battery materials with the Centre of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage, known as CETEES. The centre develops technology for electric vehicles and for energy-storage systems.

In a statement, the utility said its security team launched a probe before it called federal authorities, adding that Wang has been fired. Wang, Hydro-Québec noted, didn’t have access to the utility’s “core mission,” and it said his access was revoked when suspicions arose.” (Montreal Gazette, November 15, 2022)

It’s maddening that we aren’t allowed even to know Wang’s citizenship status. How did this person who speaks no French and little English even qualify to immigrate to Canada? The issue of double loyalty may be a political hand grenade. We’re not even allowed to ask the question. So, let’s put it a little differently. Shouldn’t Chinese immigrants, especially those from Red China, have to give strong evidence of their loyalty to Canada before being accepted? The few immigrants from Taiwan are mostly fiercely anti-communist as are many from Hong Kong. Red China is a different matter. Some immigrants are anti-communist. Some come here for a better and much cheaper education and a much cleaner environment than the Chinese Mainland. Many remain fiercely proud of China which is now an economic powerhouse and a resurgent military power. It’s these people who are susceptible to calls to help Red China through espionage.

  • A week later, we discovered a little more about the alleged spy: “Wang, a Chinese national on a work visa for his job with the Quebec utility, put up his suburban Montreal home and a downtown condominium as an assurance he would remain in Canada.” (National Post, November 25, 2022) Why was he granted a work visa? What security check was done on him? How did this 35-year old amass so much property? Was he getting by frugally on a bowl of rice and crickets per day?

Charles Burton warns:  “The [Red Chinese] propaganda campaign, which includes conspiracy theories promulgated by pro-Beijing Chinese language media in Canada, threatens our democracy. It already cost Canadian [Conservative] MPs of Chinese heritage their seats in the last election, and because we do nothing about it, we can expect more in the next election. The Chinese-language media’s hate-mongering includes accusations of pervasive racism against everybody in Canada with Chinese ancestry. Readers of China’s WeChat and other platforms are implored to respond by identifying with the Motherland and becoming loyal to the Chinese Communist Party.

Canada seems incapable of doing anything about China, due to the incompatibility of the Ottawa doctrine that we must maintain close relations with Beijing regardless of public opinion. When China’s ambassador in Ottawa threatened Canada about crossing a ‘red line’ on Taiwan, warning officials to draw lessons from the past (read: hostage diplomacy) if our MPs set foot in Taiwan, our prime minister didn’t even condemn the remarks, but simply urged MPs to reflect on the ‘consequences’ of such a visit.” (Toronto Star, August 28, 2022)

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How “Diverse”: Shoes Thrown at RCMP in Surrey

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How “Diverse”: Shoes Thrown at RCMP in Surrey

The joys of “diversity”. It is noteworthy that not only is Newton, Surrey 58% South Asian but throwing shoes at people is a public act of disgust. BC has undergone truly massive demographic change, as a result of immigration.

Video footage shows Surrey RCMP officers getting swarmed by large group of kids, adults
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Sask. RCMP seek suspects in romance scam that stole more than $360K combined from 7 women

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CBC. April 16, 2020

[Question: What is the immigration status of these accused conmen and parasites? If immigrants, how did they get into the country? Who checked their criminal background? It’s time for government accountability!]

Sask. RCMP seek suspects in romance scam that stole more than $360K combined from 7 women
Sask. RCMP seek suspects in romance scam that stole more than $360K combined from 7 women

RCMP in Saskatchewan are looking for four men who are believed to be part of a long-term romance scam and tied to an international criminal organization with a history of running similar grifts.

Police said a two-year investigation has resulted in the arrest of one person accused of participating in the scam, which allegedly stole more than $360,000 combined from seven different women.

RCMP said the criminal organization operating the scams is believed to be responsible for defrauding people of more than $2,000,000 over the last two years.

In January 2018, RCMP received a complaint from someone who said their name was used without their permission or knowledge in a fraudulent transaction online.

The Saskatchewan RCMP Federal Serious and Online Crime (FSOC) unit investigated and discovered the incident of fraud was linked to several others, with victims across the country.

Five men believed to be living in Regina at the time of the frauds were suspected to be involved. One, 28-year-old Austin Newton, was arrested and charged on Jan. 15, 2020.

He faces numerous fraud-related charges and is set to appear in court on April 21 via video.

A Canada-wide warrant was issued for 24-year-old Kelvin Awani, 22-year-old Jonah Eigbuluese, 25-year-old Joshua Ometie and 27-year-old Clinton Newton.

Anyone with information about these four men have been asked to contact the Saskatchewan RCMP, Crime Stoppers or their local police detachment.

Police ‘struck’ by authenticity 

The FSOC unit created a video outlining “red flags” of fraudulent online romance scams.

“RCMP FSOC was struck by the apparent authenticity of these online romances and by the time devoted by the suspects to the people they victimized,” an RCMP news release said.

RCMP Insp. Wayne Nichols said the alleged scammers were patient and waited for the women to believe they were in a true intimate relationship before asking for money from them — sometimes up to eight months.

He said the women met the men through gaming apps and online dating sites.

He said gifts, photos and personal family details were shared between the women and the men involved. In one case, both parties exchanged engagement rings.

“It made sense to believe this was a real relationship,” he said.

When the scammers did ask for money, he said they made it sound urgent. For example, he said the women were told the money needed to pay for an accident at work, an operation or the birthday of a child.

Every time, he said the women were told the women were told they’d be repaid.

Because romance scams feature a variety of similar elements, Nichols outlined the following as things to look for to prevent someone from falling victim of a romance scam:

  • The person claims to have experienced a tragedy or complication in life.
  • The person claims to be working in a remote location, where they can’t access a bank account.
  • The person claims they need the money urgently for medical expenses or fees to free up money being held by a third party.
  • The person claims the money has to be sent to a third party or another person who would then send the money to them.

“If the person you are communicating with online or over the phone is telling you he or she is in one of these situations and is asking you for money, do not give them money,” he said.

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Chinese scientist under investigation trained staff at Level 4 lab in China — Is This a Spy Case? Why Won’t Ottawa Tell Us

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Chinese  scientist under investigation trained staff at Level 4 lab in China — Is This a Spy Case? Why Won’t Ottawa Tell Us? 

Still no answers in probe of government scientists expelled from National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg

Karen Pauls · CBC News ·

Xiangguo Qiu, her biologist husband and her students have not returned to work at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, after being escorted out in July. RCMP are still investigating what was described by Public Health Agency of Canada as a possible ‘policy breach.’ (CBC)

This story was published on Oct. 3, 2019.

A Canadian government scientist at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg made at least five trips to China in 2017-18, including one to train scientists and technicians at China’s newly certified Level 4 lab, which does research with the most deadly pathogens, according to travel documents obtained by CBC News.

Xiangguo Qiu — who was escorted out of the Winnipeg lab in July amid an RCMP investigation into what’s being described by Public Health Agency of Canada as a possible “policy breach” — was invited to go to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences twice a year for two years, for up to two weeks each time.

“This will be third-party funded, and therefore no cost to [the Public Health Agency of Canada],” say the documents, obtained through access to information requests. The identity of the third-party was redacted.

During a Sept. 19-30, 2017, trip, she also met with collaborators in Beijing, the documents say, but their names have also been blacked out.

Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and her students from China were removed on July 5 from Canada’s only Level 4 lab — one equipped to work with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases, such as Ebola. Security access for the couple and the Chinese students was revoked, sources who work at the lab previously told CBC News.

People working inside the lab told CBC News this week they have heard the couple may return to work soon.

Several of them, who asked not to be identified for fears of retribution, say there have always been questions about Qiu’s trips to China — and what information and technology she was sharing with researchers there.

“It’s not right that she’s a Canadian government employee providing details of top-secret work and know-how to set up a high-containment lab for a foreign nation,” one employee said.

The staff member claims RCMP officers have not yet interviewed key people at the lab, because senior management has not made them accessible to police or allowed staff to contact them with relevant information.

Qiu accepts an award from Gov. Gen. Julie Payette, left, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in 2018, for being part of the team at the National Microbiology Lab that created the Ebola drug ZMapp. (CBC)

A spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which runs the lab, referred questions to the RCMP.

“We encourage anyone who has information and wishes to speak with the RCMP on this matter to attend RCMP HQ in Winnipeg at 1091 Portage Avenue,” RCMP said in an emailed statement.

“In order to maintain the integrity of the investigative process, we have no further comment at this time.”

A spokesperson confirms the police investigation is ongoing. Both agencies have said repeatedly there is no threat to public safety.

Researchers must balance caution, collaboration

Meanwhile, there has been no change in Qiu and Cheng’s status at the University of Manitoba, which had severed ties with both of them and reassigned her students in July.

Qiu is a medical doctor and virologist who helped develop ZMapp — a treatment for the deadly Ebola virus, which killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa between 2014-2016 and saw an outbreak in Congo earlier this year.

She is a medical doctor from Tianjin, China, who came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996. She is still affiliated with the university there and has brought in many students over the years to help with her work.

During her trips, Qiu also visited the Chinese Academy of Science, Tsinghua University, the Chinese Medical Academy of Science and Bejing Institute of Biotechnology.

She spoke at several conferences, including some organized by the World Health Organization, the Chinese Society of Virology and International Symposium on Emerging Viral Disease.

Jia Wang, deputy director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, is not concerned with Xiangguo Qiu’s trips to China, saying collaboration is common in international research. (China Institute)

Collaboration and information-sharing is common and expected in academia, says Jia Wang, deputy director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

“In an increasingly globalized world, in an increasingly globalized field of research, we do see more exchanges and more visits incoming and outgoing,” she said.

But researchers working with international partners also “need to understand the security parameters and the requirements to follow the procedures, and to safeguard intellectual property and also safeguard their research,” she said.

There’s a balance they need to strike between being cautious and open-minded to collaboration, though, Wang said.

“In the end, we are hoping that this research exchange will ultimately benefit Canada and benefit our people here.”

Qiu and Cheng have not responded to multiple requests for comment.

Relations between Canada and China have been strained since the detention last year of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. arrest warrant.

CBC’s Journalistic Standard
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