Thread by @sunnshiiny

So Fife is stirring up trouble again.

However, this article does make it abundantly clear how inappropriate is was for a HOC committee to demand release of unredacted documents.

I wonder why conservatives were so adamant that the documents be turned over.

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1410378392323739649

A little suspected espionage and a little theft of Canadian intellectual property.

Sensitive investigation with national security, foreign relations and international trade implications. Confirmed by a leaky lab partner who understands none of these areas adequately.

Two PLA scientists in the Winnipeg lab. How the heck did that get approved?

Wonder when that occurred? Wonder if there were contracts signed, like NDA’s. And by whom? Lab administration, Health Canada, under which Prime Minister?

How much information was transferred? Who received it? What is CCP and Wuhan Lab doing with the information? Is the alleged intellectual theft connected to any other espionage conducted by CCP assets?

No wonder the RCMP and federal government are redacting documents.

Revealing those documents would derail that investigation. If it’s a criminal investigation, it’s already in the correct hands (RCMP).

Interesting no LPC members of the committee requested the unredacted documents. Just NDP and CPC members.

Fife is going to have a more difficult time to spin this as an LPC scandal.

In fact he’s going to have a difficult time containing it as a conservative scandal.

Why were NDP and CPC MPs trying to derail a criminal investigation with national security implications?

Using the refusal of federal government to comply with committee demands for full disclosure of documents?

It will be interesting to watch this evolve.

I can’t imagine the RCMP or federal Prosecutors are happy with the physician with loose lips that confirmed he’s been interviewed, what the interview questions entailed and confirmation it’s a criminal investigation.

Obviously he’s unconcerned about keeping sensitive issues like international espionage out of the public’s knowledge until the investigation is done.

Is it a crime to reveal a confidential top secret investigation to a nosy reporter who’s known for spinning scandals?

I don’t know. Guess we will find out.

China is well known for its intellectual theft practices.

Here’s a 2017 CSIS report. Not our CSIS, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

csis.org/analysis/put-c…

Canada has pushed back on CCP for IP theft. But Canada has a restrictive 31 year international investor agreement imposed by Harper CPC in FIPA from 2014.

Canada isn’t really in the position to poke the dragon too strongly.

theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

So revealing a criminal investigation is being conducted probably isn’t going to help relations with a nation that can destroy the Canadian economy when it’s struggling to rebound in a global pandemic.

Kinda makes you wonder what CPC and NDP MPs were after.

Confirmation that espionage was suspected and being investigated is now public knowledge.

Good work Mr. Fife. Good work opposition parties. 😑

Maybe Mr. Fife can ask some MPs what they were after?

Something to watch for certain.