Process Nerd: What we know so far about Emergencies Act review
Summary
As of Tuesday morning, there was still no word on when the newly struck Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency (DEDC) — which, as its name makes clear, has been tasked with reviewing the government’s unprecedented decision to […]
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As of Tuesday morning, there was still no word on when the newly struck Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency (DEDC) — which, as its name makes clear, has been tasked with reviewing the government’s unprecedented decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to then-ongoing anti-COVID mandate protests in Ottawa and across Canada — will hold its inaugural meeting.
Even so, with the clock ticking down towards the seven-sitting-day reporting deadline laid out in the Act itself, it’s a good bet that it will happen before the House and Senate return to regular parliamentary programming following the current two-week hiatus — and that even if that first session takes place behind closed doors, it’s still going to be one of the most closely-watched committee meetings in years.
In any case, while we wait for the wheres and whens to be settl