Anonymous ID: c41f38 June 22, 2021, 1:02 p.m. No.13958811   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Winnipeg lab back in the news.

 

The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada is now the first non-MP in more than a 100 years to receive a formal reprimand from the House of Commons.

 

The move is the latest escalation in a heated political row over the governmentโ€™s refusal to hand over documents related to the firing of two scientists from the National Microbiology Lab in 2019.

 

It followed a vote last week by MPs to invoke a rare set of powers to discipline or potentially even imprison people, and summoned him as part of an opposition push to pressure the government to release documents on the firing.

 

Clad in a dark suit, Stewart was brought in by the Sergeant-at-Arms to stand at the bar of the House of Commons โ€” literally a long brass bar across the green carpet โ€” where he was reprimanded.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/7968097/house-of-commons-rare-reprimand-winnipeg-lab/