Because "Transparency"

Like so:

The Liberal government announced over the Thanksgiving weekend that Iain Stewart would be stepping down as president of PHAC, to be replaced by Harpreet Kochhar, a veterinarian by training and long-time public servant. Stewart will return to head the National Research Council, where he served before his one-year designation at the public health agency.

Stewart presided over PHAC at an extraordinary time, overseeing a restructuring of the department during a global pandemic. He also played a central role in the government’s efforts to block the publication of documents that detailed the firing of the two scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng.

In a rare parliamentary move, Stewart was forced to appear before the Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2021 for a public admonishment, where he was reprimanded for declining to supply the hundreds of pages of un-redacted documents to a special committee. Weeks later the federal government took House Speaker Anthony Rota, a Liberal member, to court, to determine whether it had legal authority to withhold the documents. It dropped the court proceeding shortly after the election call earlier this year.

Observers say Stewart’s return to the NRC is likely to slow any efforts by opposition parties to secure those records in the next parliamentary session, removing a key figure with first-hand knowledge of the issue.

 

That's the plan! 

Also - you know, the Narrative:

An academic working paper released in the spring outlining the failures of pandemic lockdown policies has been largely ignored by media, says its author.

Douglas Allen, an economics professor at Simon Fraser University, says his study went viral after he posted it in April and he received positive feedback, leading to interviews on podcasts in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. Even a few politicians reached out, he says.

But as far as media goes, his study received little attention. Aside from The Epoch Times, “no major media outlet contacted me,” Allen says.

The Toronto Sun did publish an article based on Allen’s findings in April, and former independent MP Derek Sloan mentioned the study to the Kingston Whig-Standard after he was arrested for attending church in April in Aylmer, Ont., in defiance of the lockdown.

Allen also published a column in the Financial Post in June outlining his findings. But that is essentially the extent of press coverage in Canada.