{"id":553189,"date":"2021-06-04T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553189"},"modified":"2021-06-04T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:20:20","slug":"opposition-pushes-trudeau-to-demand-relocating-olympics-from-china-at-g-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opposition-pushes-trudeau-to-demand-relocating-olympics-from-china-at-g-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Pushes Trudeau to Demand Relocating Olympics From China at G-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopposition-pushes-trudeau-to-demand-relocating-olympics-from-china-at-g-7%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-239.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Canada\u2019s conservative opposition party wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stand up to China at the upcoming G-7 summit in the United Kingdom, including the removal of the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/otoole-wants-trudeau-to-stand-up-to-china-at-g7-push-relocation-of-beijing-olympics_3845012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times<\/a> reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Trudeau, Conservative Party leader Erin O\u2019Toole\u00a0called on Trudeau to take several steps to what they see as a threat from China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Prime Minister, I also implore you to also use your voice on the world stage to call for the relocation of the 2022 Winter Olympics out of Beijing,\u201d the letter said. \u201cCanada should not be sending its athletes to compete there while a genocide is being committed against Uyghurs, and two Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, remained detained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Toole also criticized the Trudeau government for its reliance on China during the pandemic, which\u00a0the letter said\u00a0caused a lack of vaccines in\u00a0the early part of the year and allowed\u00a0the country to \u201cfall behind\u201d other G-7 nations in its recovery.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/15\/987787702\/behind-the-relatively-slow-vaccine-rollout-in-canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR report <\/a>in April, Canada had fully vaccinated only about 2%\u00a0of its population of more than 38 million residents.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Picard, a columnist for The Globe and Mail,\u00a0told NPR that the reason for the lag was that Canada does not manufacture much medication in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t have any domestic production. And then we have a very decentralized health system, which means that the different rules in different parts of the country are very confusing for the public,\u201d Picard told NPR. \u201cSo, a whole series of factors have made this kind of a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Toole\u2019s letter also takes Trudeau\u2019s government to task for possible national security breaches dealing with the firing of two scientists at Winnipeg\u2019s National Microbiology Laboratory for possibly collaborating with the Chinese military.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0According to a story in Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-wherabouts-of-two-scientists-fired-from-winnipeg-virus-lab-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail,<\/a> the location of the two scientists is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The news outlet reported that the couple, Xiangguo Qiu, who was the head of a \u201ckey\u201d program at the lab, and her husband, Keding Cheng, no longer live in Winnipeg, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would not tell the Globe and Mail if they\u00a0knew the couple\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this is an ongoing investigation, we will not be providing any additional information,\u201d Cpl.\u00a0Julie Courchaine from the RCMP\u2019s Manitoba division said in an e-mail to the Globe.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news outlet, the couple were\u00a0removed from the lab in July 2019 and fired from their positions in January for \u201cpolicy breach\u201d and an \u201cadministrative matter,\u201d according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Security Intelligence Service reportedly asked to remove their security clearances due to concerns regarding work they were doing with the Wuhan lab in China, which could possibly be the source of the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Global and Mail, the pair and \u201can unknown number\u201d of Qiu\u2019s students from China were escorted out of the Winnipeg lab\u00a0on July 5, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s conservative opposition party wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stand up to China at the upcoming G-7 summit in the United Kingdom, including the removal of the 2022 Winter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279293,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-239.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Opposition Pushes Trudeau to Demand Relocating Olympics From China at G-7","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-239.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Opposition Pushes Trudeau to Demand Relocating Olympics From China at G-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}