Carelessness with national security, as seen in the Winnipeg labs, has consequences


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Open this photo in gallery: Minister of Health Mark Holland gestures to a reporter as he takes questions in the Foyer of the House of Commons in Ottawa on Feb. 28.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press It seems careless to let uncleared foreign researchers roam unattended in a high-security microbiology lab, as one of the scientists fired in 2020, Keding Cheng, did. To the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, it seemed even more careless, and suspicious, that his wife and colleague, Xiangguo Qiu, hadn’t told her employers she took a side trip to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Or that she had applied...