The recent departure of the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada could stymie opposition efforts to uncover details surrounding a high-security microbiology lab in Winnipeg, where two scientists were fired earlier this year for undisclosed reasons.
In a rare parliamentary move, Stewart was forced to appear before the Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2021 for a public admonishment, where he was reprimanded for declining to supply the hundreds of pages of un-redacted documents to a special committee. Weeks later the federal government took House Speaker Anthony Rota, a Liberal member, to court, to determine whether it had legal authority to withhold the documents. It dropped the court proceeding shortly after the election call earlier this year.
Observers say Stewart’s return to the NRC is likely to slow any efforts by opposition parties to secure those records in the next parliamentary session, removing a key figure with first-hand knowledge of the issue.
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