PHAC President Rebuked, Still Doesn’t Produce Documents on Fired Scientists

President of the Public Health Agency of Canada Iain Stewart, right, approaches the bar in the House of Commons to be admonished by the Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 21, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA—Conservatives are proposing that the Public Health Agency of Canada’s offices be searched after the head of the agency refused once again to hand over unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory

The move comes after PHAC president Iain Stewart appeared before the bar of the House of Commons, where he was reprimanded by Speaker Anthony Rota for refusing to comply with a House order to produce the documents.