Infectious-disease scientist fired from Winnipeg laboratory surfaces in China (working, news)

[hayleae1]

Surfaces. Like a baby seal. Still, make sure you are current on your jabs.

[Luisito80]

Another major blunder of the Trudeau government.

[orbiter]

They would have been locked up and the key thrown away, had they been in the US.

Timeline from that news article:
* Qiu, came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996.
* She started at the UoM, but began working at the national lab as a research scientist in 2006.
* Canadian officials intervened in 2018 and began investigating
* being locked out of the Winnipeg lab in July, 2019
* By January, 2021, Qiu and Cheng were fired

[hayleae1]

Originally Posted by orbiter

They would have been locked up and the key thrown away, had they been in the US.

Timeline from that news article:
* Qiu, came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996.
* She started at the UoM, but began working at the national lab as a research scientist in 2006.
* Canadian officials intervened in 2018 and began investigating
* being locked out of the Winnipeg lab in July, 2019
* By January, 2021, Qiu and Cheng were fired

In between She was feted at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall with a Governor-General’s Award in May, 2018

[orbiter]

Originally Posted by hayleae1

In between She was feted at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall with a Governor-General’s Award in May, 2018

Please share if you or anyone knows if they had committed treason (spying for a foreign government) before May 2018.

One of CD's moderators may have an inkling of my principles wrt to bad behavior of certain groups. No excuse being seeked. Just throwing it in to generate a discussion , Trump's China Policy was around November 2018 if I'm not mistaken.