The government's 'national security' claim for withholding documents from Parliament is exposed as a sham

Why did the government call an election in August, 2021, in the middle of a pandemic, just as Afghanistan was falling, and with more than two years left in its mandate? A good argument could be made that it was to shut down a Commons committee looking into the mysterious dismissal of two Chinese nationals from a top-secret Winnipeg research laboratory. At the urging of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the two scientists - Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, head of vaccine development at the National Microbiology Laboratory, and her husband Keding Cheng - had their security clearance revoked and were escorted…