{"id":1844,"date":"2020-04-05T06:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T06:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2020-04-05T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T07:00:58","slug":"chinese-scientist-under-investigation-trained-staff-at-level-4-lab-in-china-is-this-a-spy-case-why-wont-ottawa-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientist under investigation trained staff at Level 4 lab in China — Is This a Spy Case? Why Won’t Ottawa Tell Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese\u00a0 scientist under investigation trained staff at Level 4 lab in China — Is This a Spy Case? Why Won’t Ottawa Tell Us?\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Still no answers in probe of government scientists expelled from National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg<\/h2>\n
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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)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This story was published on Oct. 3, 2019.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Level 4 lab, which\u00a0does research with the most deadly\u00a0pathogens,\u00a0according to travel documents obtained by CBC News.<\/p>\n

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Xiangguo Qiu \u2014 who was escorted out of the Winnipeg lab in July amid\u00a0an RCMP investigation into what’s being described by Public Health Agency of Canada as a possible “policy breach” \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and\u00a0her students from China were removed on July 5 from Canada’s only Level 4 lab<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 one equipped to work with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases, such as Ebola.\u00a0Security access for the couple and the Chinese students was revoked,\u00a0sources who work at the lab previously told CBC News.<\/p>\n

People working inside the lab told\u00a0CBC\u00a0News this week\u00a0they have heard the couple\u00a0may return to work soon.<\/p>\n

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