Mr. Speaker, I take national security very seriously, and I agree that we need to hold the government to account. There have been a number of serious ethical breaches.
In 1949, China became a Communist country. It has not changed. We know it is still a Communist country. On August 22, 2013, Conservative defence minister Rob Nicholson signed an agreement to deepen military co-operation with China. We had the Canada-China FIPA, signed in 2012, which gives Chinese state-owned corporations a great degree of power to challenge our laws and policies.
I would ask the hon. member when Chinese scientists started working at this level 4 National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg. We know there was a similar breach in 2009 when samples were taken from the lab. Was the Harper Conservative government complicit in having Chinese scientists working at this lab?