Madam Speaker, I wanted to ask the member about the broader question of research co-operation with the Chinese military, because this is an important values question and a policy question that underlines this debate. One gets the sense there might be information about this co-operation in these documents that the government does not want to see shared.
We know now that of the people working at the Winnipeg lab, one in particular was an official from the People's Liberation Army's Academy of Military Medical Sciences. We know there has been interchange and other forms of co-operation between Chinese military institutions and Canadian labs.
When this issue was raised at committee, the health minister seemed sort of broadly comfortable with the fact that this kind of co-operation was happening. However, it is happening in the context that a genocide is taking place. A genocide is being committed by this very same military as we speak, and we know how viruses can be used in military applications.
Can the member share his thoughts as to whether it is right, appropriate and just for the Canadian government to allow Canadian labs to be collaborating with the Chinese military on research that the military might use to harm our interests or to commit human rights violations?