REVEALED: Trudeau signed vaccine deal with China last year, denied having done so

Trudeau himself had previously dismissed the allegations as "disinformation" and swore that such a contract did not exist.

According to Blacklocks, the whole thing was kept under wraps as much as possible. In fact, the contract was so secretive that CanSino forbid the Canadian government to issue press releases even remotely related to the specific deal without their express permission.

"The National Research Council censored details of its contract with CanSino. Terms of the Collaborative Research Agreement that were disclosed confirmed a 'non-refundable' cash fee was paid. The total value of the agreement was not divulged," Blacklocks reported.

Erin O'Toole, then the Tory Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, asked PM Trudeau point-blank:

"Why when China is holding our citizens hostage and stealing our intellectual property did the Prime Minister choose a CanSino partnership?"

"That is simply not true. We signed seven vaccine contracts with vaccine makers from around the world and not one of them was from China."

"We actually signed and announced deals with Moderna and Pfizer in early August well before the CanSino project fell through."

MP William Sonia Sidhu (Lib.-Brampton South) concurred at the time, responding to criticism over the then-alleged contract by saying:

"This is not correct. We need to clarify there’s never been a contract between CanSino and the Government of Canada."

Others suggested that this was a joint research project, and not a deal for a potential vaccine, despite the company already having started testing of a vaccine in China on or before May 12 2020.

Canada's collaboration with CanSino appears to have ended summarily on May 19 2020. Canada had paid with taxpayer money an undisclosed sum of money to CanSino, which, under the contract's terms, was non-refundable.