‘Have you witnessed forced labour?’ Floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma challenges former senior Canadian official and China expert

The Bureau: The exchange on Thursday struck some online observers as extraordinary, in part due to the standing of the witness: Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a 37-year veteran of the federal public service who served on the Canada-China Joint Committee on Science and Technology for the final seven years of her government career, holds a master’s degree in International Relations with a focus on China, and has visited Xinjiang multiple times since 1979…