An image of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory.Photo by Photo Courtesy of the National Microbiology Laboratory

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada still hasn't learned from Winnipeg-Wuhan lab incident

New Commons report wisely recommends blacklisting the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its researchers from receiving Canadian funding

by · National Post

Canadian public health authorities didn’t have to let the Wuhan Institute of Virology infiltrate and co-opt our country’s highest-security biolab. The warning signs had been there for years, and no one to our knowledge was holding a gun to the heads of the rubber-stampers who authorized a security-threat-flagged scientist’s shipment of live Ebola back to the motherland.