‘Get cracking’: joint committee reviewing emergency powers should not get ‘bogged down’ debating scope, experts say

‘If they can't proceed in a non-partisan fashion they should just go home,’ says Wesley Wark of the extended debate by the joint parliamentary committee about how much to cover in its review of the powers exercised during the February invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Police officers, pictured on Sparks Street on Feb. 17, 2022, facing off against protesters as part of what became a massive law enforcement effort, using powers granted through the Emergencies Act, to clear protesters from Ottawa's downtown. A joint parliamentary committee is starting its study into the use of those powers, but has yet to settle on its scope.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

April 1, 2022

More than a month after the government invoked and revoked the Emergencies Act to end the illegal occupation in downtown Ottawa, the special parliamentary committee, created under the same law to offer oversight on the government's extraordinary powers, is still “wr...

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