The new head of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg has some homework to do before taking over the high-security facility — starting with a long-awaited parliamentary committee report that recommends immediately ending all government-funded research in sensitive areas with people or entities from within China. 

Dr. Jean Longtin, who was with Quebec's Ministry of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic, will in January take over the lab that prompted the recommendations after two of its s…